I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a factory/farm/office worker
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Factory workers threatened strikes.
a farm/factory/school etc gate
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I carefully shut the farm gate behind me.
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Lots of parents were waiting outside the school gate.
a farming community
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a small farming community of about 1,000 inhabitants
a farming method
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Farming methods have changed a lot over the last 100 years.
agricultural/farm produce
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The government bought surplus agricultural produce from farmers.
collective farm
dairy farm
factory farming
farmed fish (= fish that are from a fish farm )
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We also know that farmed fish don’t have as much omega 3 as wild salmon.
fat farm
fish farm
funny farm
fur farming (= keeping and killing animals for their fur )
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a ban on fur farming
health farm
irrigated land/farms/crops
mixed farming
organic farmers/farms
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Organic farmers build up soil fertility by crop rotation.
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Synthetic fertilisers are banned on organic farms.
organic farming (= farming without using artificial chemicals )
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the environmental benefits of organic farming
server farm
truck farm
walking/riding/farming etc country
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To the east is an area of rich farming country.
wild/domestic/farm animals
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cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals
wind farm
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
collective
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Soloukhin told me of watching a collective-farm worker in a church turned granary.
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In October 1956 collectivization began, with the establishment of collective farms .
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Farmers given right to leave collective farms with allotment of land and equipment.
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Milda was no longer allowed to live in Riga but had been ordered to do hard physical work on a collective farm .
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Agriculture is crippled, too, by the miserable conditions on the collective farms .
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He doesn't mean as drones on some collective farm .
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People's banks are being set up as cooperatives, and collective farms are replacing small landholdings.
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Here and there the landscape was broken by dreary gray buildings that had been thrown up to house members of collective farms .
large
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Now, industrialised countries are almost self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs due to the use of fertilisers, mechanisation and larger farm units.
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In the countryside, large working farms interrupted a landscape of mountains, meadow, marshland, and abandoned quarries.
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Jess is a quiet, intense kid from a large , close-knit farm family in Washington.
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From here descend into Liddesdale, aiming towards a group of large green farm sheds across the valley.
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When I was nine he started a large poultry farm west of Delray Beach, Florida.
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In Ayrshire, with some world-famous herds, the larger farms would receive less than 5 percent. of the compensation.
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Irrigation projects provide water for large commercial farms , not smallholders.
local
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From boyhood he worked on local farms and became an itinerant Methodist preacher.
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Cook and then move on across the Canterbury Plains for an overnight on a local farm .
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They therefore attracted labour without any hindrance, providing jerry-built, damp and insanitary hovels for letting to local farm workers.
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Most people I knew took their first few feet of sliding down a local farm field with a rope tow.
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In addition to their milling activities, the Ayliffes also operated cider-making equipment, their portable unit moving annually around local farms .
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Uncle would visit the local farms , trying to find work for them.
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In May he prepared his own aircraft for flight from the local farm .
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She used to visit local farms , struck up a friendship with my Aunt Hannah and was introduced to Father.
old
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I came to the site of an old farm that had been overgrown and then clearcut five years ago.
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Champany Inn Old converted farm steading, furnished in antique Victoriana.
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We are starting with an old farm , while nature may have started with a glacial moraine ten thousand years ago.
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The road ended just there, in a long concrete hardstand where a cart and some rusting old farm machinery were parked.
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It was one of the oldest hop farms in the Derwent Valley, and this minor valley took its name from it.
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To the old farm for lunch, but what about the seals?
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After all, the 27-year-\#old farm worker fully intended to return to work when his 30-minute lunch break was over.
organic
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The prime culprit is organic farm waste, such as cattle slurry and silage, and even milk.
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For a crash course on the subject, consider subscribing to an organic farm with a delivery service in your area.
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Next week a new residential block opens at its organic farm , Kilcranny House, just outside Coleraine.
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They say I must come and see them on their new organic farm - more land, less house, says Johnson.
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A well-run organic farm could hold many times that number.
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This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry, industry and domestic refuse.
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Mr Wilson says organic farms reverse many modern agricultural trends.
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By exterminating farm animals, the option of small organic farms is eroded.
small
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Mr MacSharry's answer is: merely for being farmers on small farms .
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Stephen moved out of the city to a small farm owned by a Mrs Dodge.
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Easily Accessible: Downhayes is set in an area of small working farms with few public footpaths in the immediate area.
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Acquire the use of a small farm along the route with sufficient line-of-sight access to the radiated energy. 3.
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Land fragmentation, as a result of inheritance laws and social custom, compounds the widespread problem of small farm size.
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The residents grew their own rice, set up a small poultry farm , wove baskets and cultivated the orchard.
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These quintas are large houses in their own spacious grounds which often include a small farm .
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Had those surpluses been directed elsewhere in the valley, they could have created a great many small irrigated farms .
■ NOUN
animal
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Under increasing public pressure, farmers are taking a greater interest in free-range systems which give a fairer deal to farm animals .
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The farm animals begin to stir, the roosters consider crowing.
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The next shelf we stopped on was filled with farm animals .
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Look out for our forthcoming profile of Sir Richard Body, and articles on farm animal welfare.
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Though London Zoo remains open, its children's section-where youngsters can touch farm animals-has been shut.
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So far, there had been as much romance as when the farm animals mated.
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Smith has been carting farm animals around Britain for 30 years.
bill
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He did sign a farm bill passed by Congress.
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The action occurred as the Senate voted 64-32 for a seven-year farm bill which would replace fixed-level crop subsidies with declining payments.
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The House has not yet considered the farm bill where a bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Rep.
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Hurt himself with Iowa farmers by missing a key vote on the federal farm bill .
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The vote came on an amendment to a sweeping farm bill aimed at weaning farmers from federal subsidies.
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He has a farm bill amendment ready that would phase out the peanut program over six years.
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However, he said crunch time has come to get a farm bill enacted into law.
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Supporters argue that the peanut program has been reformed under the Senate farm bill and the proposed House legislation.
building
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For economy in building costs, these three types of farm buildings were sometimes combined into a single building.
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The farm buildings so often found below the galleries are situated further away in this case.
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At last, at about 0345 hours, the farm buildings become defined against the woods and fields beyond.
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Of the other farm buildings on our site, apart from a small bath-house, only barns and rural out-buildings were found.
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A well and cheese press are below in the yard with the farm buildings situated below and behind the gallery.
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He provided a comprehensive network of farm buildings connected, it is said, by a telegraph system.
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There is certainly nothing new in converting farm buildings .
dairy
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The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms .
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They live together on a lushly beautiful dairy farm .
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In 1915 the farm was taken over by Fauchons who ran it as a dairy farm.
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He turned the beef holding into a dairy farm and soon began expanding by leasing other dairy farms all over Ireland.
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With Marjorie, she rented a tiny cottage at the edge of a dairy farm in Dorset, Vermont.
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He turned the beef holding into a dairy farm and soon began expanding by leasing other dairy farms all over Ireland.
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Livestock sales are down 1%, while turnover on dairy farms could fall by up to 10%.
family
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Speyside was an area where the lack of adequate housing had provided particular problems in keeping family farms going.
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Instead of a family farm raising potatoes and grain, they also own the horse-breeding farm of their dreams.
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Therefore family farms also cross-subsidise the profits from copper mining.
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Earlier, he had highlighted Clinton-administration backed research programs at a stop at a nearby family farm .
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This was achieved partly through capitalist agriculture driving out family farms .
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The agricultural economy, based on family farms and home workshops, shifted to an industrial one.
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Reformed systems of direct support, aimed in particular at helping family farms and crofts.
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As a child, he watched a river sweep away the wheat planted on the family farm in Indiana.
gate
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Those with milking herds had a ready market for farm gate sales of butter and cheese.
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The tractor ruts led straight on to a farm gate .
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And here, barring the road, was the familiar old farm gate still in place.
health
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The following week was Guildford and I decided to stay at Grayshott Hall, the health farm .
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At the foot of the Quantock Hills in rural Somerset is one of the most luxurious health farms in the country.
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Thereby completely missing the point of being at a health farm .
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By this stage we were beginning to realise the formula is two days in Paris, six days in a health farm .
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If you need a break there's nothing better than being pampered at a health farm .
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Rebuild the Roman villa and use it for a hydro and health farm .
hill
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Other hill farms are owned and worked as a unit linked with a lowland farm.
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I believed I had been locked up all my life, up there on that hill farm in North Chittendon.
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Opposite a riding stable follow a track leading past Windy Hill farm and to the beach.
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Asa bought the hill farm in 1856 from Orin Perkins, married Elmira Wilkins, and settled there.
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As a result some of the hill farms are being joined together - amalgamated - and farm labourers are becoming unemployed.
land
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Dartmoor and Exmoor, with their wild moorland, some farm land and villages, are National Parks.
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The loch covers an area of 550 acres, surrounded north, west and south by farm lands and fresh-water marshes.
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Farmwatch will also deal with the threat of travellers invading farm land and prevent scenes like those at Castlemoreton.
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Another consequence of population growth is a demand for new farm land .
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Lead head Please identify this object I found recently on ploughed farm land .
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High percentage of farm land or all land in permanent pasture made up of rough grazing.
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What has happened to the farm land ?
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Why may farmers wish to sell the remaining farm land ?
machinery
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He's launched a scheme which gives these farmers access to modern farm machinery and he teaches them how to use it.
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Until the combine appeared, the self-binder had been the mechanical marvel of the farm machinery industry for forty years.
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A fire service spokeswoman said the outhouses contained mostly farm machinery .
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They were brothers; they were transporting farm machinery from Los Angeles to Minnesota and making good money at it.
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These included providing extra farm machinery and manpower, including 20,000 troops.
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They were one of the first, and certainly one of the most successful, manufacturers of steam-powered farm machinery .
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The road ended just there, in a long concrete hardstand where a cart and some rusting old farm machinery were parked.
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Dead sheep and lambs were found in farm machinery .
manager
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The project high-lighted the key role of the expert advisors which are used by farm managers in undertaking their roles.
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I just pay his farm manager our rent.
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You work so hard as my farm manager that I want you to have a larger share of the profits.
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Nicky Brown, the farm manager , was born to the land.
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She no longer took such an interest in the farm , and very sensibly appointed Gabriel Oak her farm manager .
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His body was still warm when it was discovered by police after his farm manager had reported him missing.
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These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough, who photographed them.
subsidy
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We hear about farm subsidies and the social wage.
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Federal farm subsidies are riddled with hypocrisies.
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Republicans would put a first-ever annual limit on farm subsidies .
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Moreover, farm subsidies undermine the efforts of developing countries to follow Washington's economic prescriptions.
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The price rises wiped out the need for farm subsidies .
wind
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The Countryside Commission has called for planning guidelines on wind farms to be issued to local authorities.
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The government has responded by planning offshore wind farms on the Ijsselmeer.
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At the moment, only inshore wind farms have been erected but there is great potential in offshore wind.
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Offshore wind farms would be more expensive to establish but far less of an eyesore.
work
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Any farm outbuildings or their contents or any liability for domestic employees engaged for farm work are excluded.
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He also said that these days camels are only really sold for farm work carts and ploughs.
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Shift work could clash with farm work especially with attendance at sales.
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I threw myself into farm work , as absorbed by this job as I had once been by literature and teaching.
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The pattern of farm work done by those with a full-time off-farm job was mainly evening and weekend work.
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In two cases where father and son were both working shifts they had arranged alternate shifts thus allowing uninterrupted farm work.
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Lessons took up only two hours a day and the farm work was badly organised.
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This was not ideal because of fatigue and farm work that had to be carried out at those times.
worker
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Secondly, it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind.
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The daughter of an itinerant farm worker , Ward now rubs shoulders with the rich, famous and glamorous.
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There is little reason to suppose that the consequences of these changes will in themselves lead farm workers to become more militant.
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He says the country is not facing a shortage of farm workers , according to his spokesman Allen Kay.
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It was being driven towards Weatherbury by two farm workers , who had not noticed Gabriel.
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These boundaries draw in children of immigrant farm workers and, at the other extreme, children of high-tech millionaires.
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It took place on the Monday after Twelfth Day when the farm workers returned to work after the Christmas holiday.
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Instead the newcomers tend to evaluate the farm worker and the other villagers on the basis of urban criteria for allocating prestige.
■ VERB
run
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He'd been working too hard in college, and even harder since he'd been running the farm .
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Great-Grandfather was running a farm at the same time, so he must have been a very busy man.
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A third brother, Ben, runs the farm shop.
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He delivered the letters and ran a little bit of a farm he owned, whilst his wife looked after the Post Office.
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For three years he would supply funds to run the farm , any profits being split equally between Tom and himself.
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Her husband, Michael became so bogged down with the worry of running their farm , he killed himself.
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Plus she ran the farm which she had no idea about.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bet the farm/ranch
intensive farming/agriculture
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About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
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Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
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Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
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They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
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They were replaced by cities dependent on intensive farming to feed them and on great armies to defend them.
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We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
model prison/farm/school etc
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A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
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Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
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The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.
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The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.
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There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
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Wave of unrest hits model prison.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a farm in southern Alberta
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After a while Bathsheba said goodnight to her farm workers, and closed the sitting-room door and windows.
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Any herbs that are added are also organically produced on the farm .
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Get an insight into life on the farm past and present.
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In other words, it is compensation for assets financed from the farm overheads.
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Instead of killing these families, they decided to construct an ant farm for them.
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It was the equivalent of the labor of migrant farm laborers.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
acre
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His grandfather farmed 250 acres across the border in County Monaghan.
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He farms half an acre of a friend's land in Mid-Glamorgan.
land
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Nicky Brown, the farm manager, was born to the land .
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The healthy cotton is grown on family plots, the neglected crop on land farmed by co-operatives.
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The cossacks were given allotments of land and farmed there as the wooden fortifications gradually rotted away.
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The land is already farmed organically.
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Their land is farmed very intensively.
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Apart from the small plots given to each member family for their house and garden, all the land is farmed collectively.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
country/farming etc folk
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Its country folk are very much at one with the land.
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Louisa's parents were country folk and believed very much in herbal remedies.
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Sadly, country folk have caught on.
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The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show.
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The customers were mostly farming folk , a hardworking and hard-drinking set of locals who, in general, were convivial and congenial.
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The difference is essentially one of the spirit and it manifests itself in the habits and attitudes of country folk .
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Umbria is a wonderful region where life is simple and the people are unpretentious country folk .
intensive farming/agriculture
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About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
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Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
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Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
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They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
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They were replaced by cities dependent on intensive farming to feed them and on great armies to defend them.
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We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
model prison/farm/school etc
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A model farm was built for the herd in 1850 but after 1870 the herd's size was never more than 100.
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Before applying the impact of support charges, his model farm produced a farm gross margin of £101,000 under farm income-optimising calculations.
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The Economic Societies encouraged local industries, set up model farms, and sponsored new crops.
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The jail is less than a year old and has been hailed as a model prison.
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There he built a model farm specialising in truffles - the regional speciality - potatoes and nuts.
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Wave of unrest hits model prison.
subsistence farming/agriculture etc
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In the early l960s Bengali agriculture consisted mainly of subsistence farming.
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It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
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It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years, surviving on subsistence farming.
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Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
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She will most probably be involved in agriculture, in subsistence farming of crops like rice.
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The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
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This vast, dispersed rural workforce would need, and would receive, only the education needed for manual subsistence farming.
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Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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My family has farmed here since 1901.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Foreshadowing yet another Communist practice, he formed colonies of soldiers to farm virgin areas.