adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an impressive/imposing building
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the impressive buildings around the town’s central square
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
building
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Food chain Tescos is thought to be interested in taking over the imposing building .
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She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time.
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However, another whisky warehouse went up, illuminating beautifully the imposing building that is Donaldson's.
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By the second century B.C. it had become a large square surrounded by imposing buildings .
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These imposing buildings from another era were the meeting point for elements that the establishment wanted to keep apart.
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The manor house is Alford's most imposing building .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An imposing staircase led out of the hall.
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It's one of the most distinguished hotels in Italy, grand and imposing .
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The show took place outside the imposing Central Library building on Fifth Avenue.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A major problem with imposing restrictions of this kind is that banks may find ways of getting round them.
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Over six feet tall, and square-shouldered, Marcus Judge was still an imposing character.
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Pergamon was an imposing hillside city and full advantage was taken of this dramatic site.
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She hurried along the path, past matching stone lions, up a few stairs to the imposing door.
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The fingerboard is rosewood with the somewhat imposing lightning bolt inlays which share the blue livery chosen for this particular model.
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The railway crossing was protected by imposing level crossing gates where it crossed the tram line.
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The site is distinguished by an imposing pair of gates, there is the station building itself and the mill.
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With her heart in her mouth she entered the imposing portals of Mon Ré, and rang the bell.