I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a desert landscape
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the flat desert landscape outside Kuwait
a garden/landscape designer (= for gardens )
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A landscape designer was commissioned to design the garden.
blot on the landscape
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The new power station is a blot on the landscape .
forbidding place/land/landscape etc
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We sailed past the island’s rather dark and forbidding cliffs.
landscape architect
landscape gardening
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
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She's not one for beautiful landscapes , in fact she has a passion for bricks.
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Tuscany's main attraction is its extraordinarily beautiful landscape , almost unchanged since medieval times.
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Her face was like a beautiful landscape except that instead of changing with the weather, it changed with her moods.
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I tried to relax my tightening nerves with mind pictures of the most beautiful landscapes of the Rambles.
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It always adds a surreal touch to an otherwise beautiful coastal landscape .
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In the profound silence I surveyed the awesomely beautiful Himalayan landscape .
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The dam burst in the middle of one of the world's most beautiful landscapes .
industrial
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By the end of the seventeenth century the industrial landscape was much more evident.
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In the meantime new industrial landscapes have developed.
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The early industrial landscapes differed essentially from those that developed with steam-power.
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Nor are the worst of modern industrial landscapes in the traditional areas.
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With the demise of the traditional industrial landscapes nostalgia for them has grown.
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Clydebank's industrial landscape can be seen from the A814 passing the north bank of the river from Glasgow to the west.
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Another photograph of an industrial and urban landscape that no longer exists.
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This sad picture of an industrial landscape should be examined under a powerful reading-glass.
local
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The slide-talk programme traces the changing face of the local landscape .
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The sensitivity to local character and landscape and costume and, yes, even physiognomy.
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The Education Secretary John Patten says the school's record is a blot on the local educational landscape .
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Since the beginning of the year, candidates have been a familiar part of the local landscape .
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Through such models, some understanding can be gained of the way in which many settlements formerly operated in their local landscape .
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This aspect will be examined below, since it is of great interest and importance in any local landscape .
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The district council objects to the proposed channel because it involves development in the green belt and within a local landscape area.
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Having examined the fabric of a church, what can this tell us of the local landscape ?
political
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Women, who had up to 1945 been barred from participating in elections, changed the political landscape by becoming voters.
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This gap is one of the most prominent features on the political landscape at the dawn of 1996.
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The historical legacy of this hegemony continues to have a profound influence on the contemporary political landscape .
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In the public sphere, women must assume sufficient power to change the cultural imagery and the political landscape .
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A minority government would represent a change in the political landscape .
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Large-scale, bureaucratic organizations are the dominant features of the political landscape .
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The political and social landscape was now transformed.
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In the name of democracy, they are transforming the political landscape to make democracy marginal.
rural
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The second type of rural landscape is the traditional mixed farm ... but mechanised and often enlarged.
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Above the desk hung a rural landscape which I was able to recognize as the work of Mrs Nugent.
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On the walls, now, hung simple rural landscapes .
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Yet even here the actual extent to which the rural landscape was altered is considerably less than we might suppose.
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Much of our wildlife is gone, and rural landscapes impoverished.
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Colourful parasols dot its fine shingle beach and, inland, rolling rural landscapes await those who like to explore.
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Leapor's poems on rural landscape are among the earliest to register the conflicts associated with the enclosure movement.
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It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape .
social
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The result is a series of social and physical landscapes where capital invests.
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The political and social landscape was now transformed.
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Such commentators have argued that the breakdown of morality in the 1960s has had lasting effects on the social landscape .
urban
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Steven Empson specialises in drawing urban and natural landscapes .
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The cycle of death leads us on towards the urban landscape that follows.
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This splendid lithograph by Bourne gives one a vivid idea of the impact of the railway on urban landscapes .
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Even in today's greatly changed urban landscape , the K ppersm hle in Duisburg is still a striking city landmark.
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Inner cities; Urban and landscape design.
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Another photograph of an industrial and urban landscape that no longer exists.
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Demolition firms and builders are busy changing the urban landscapes .
■ NOUN
architect
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Finally in 1974 the San Francisco landscape architect Lawrence Halprin won the commission.
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Santee recently hired a landscape architect to begin drawing designs for a skate park.
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Few are any more attractive than those they have replaced, despite the work of designers and landscape architects .
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The book by Folkwin Wendland, a trained garden- and landscape architect , traces its history since 1450.
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By the 1920S the former had won the day and landscape architects turned their talents to municipal projects.
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On this occasion Andy, the landscape architect , whom her father nicknamed Adam the gardener, was invited.
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He achieved great success and became the leading landscape architect of the day.
gardener
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On the forecourt stood a horse-drawn van on which was painted the name of a firm of landscape gardeners in flowery script.
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From the mid-1850s Milner worked as an independent landscape gardener .
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His brother Bartholomew was a horticulturist and landscape gardener in Walham Green, Fulham.
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Oh, it is the landscape gardeners and a very nice job they're doing of it.
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During the last week, landscape gardeners had begun a massive clearance of the overgrown grounds.
painter
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He's a landscape painter , he's a good influence.
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I have never really regarded myself as a landscape painter .
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She shooed it off, vindictively giving it an urge to become a great landscape painter in place of its rope obsession.
painting
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November 28 also sees the close of Michael Biberstein's exhibition of recent landscape paintings at the Montenay.
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I wonder what future generations will see in our contemporary landscape paintings .
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John Barrell pursues a similar insight more cautiously in relation to landscape painting and poetry in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Richard Wilson, the genius of landscape painting , has a place of honour.
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The result is a satisfying blend of Bonington retrospective and survey of landscape painting in the 1820s.
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By the end of the century landscape painting for its own sake was established.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What kind of photographs do you take?" "Mostly landscapes, and some portraits."
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Landscape , in a blend of Eastern and Western styles, is his main subject.
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Adams is best know for his landscapes of Yosemite National Park.
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an urban landscape of glittering modern buildings
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Constable is probably England's most famous landscape artist.
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The construction of dams has changed the character of the landscape .
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The island's landscape is similar to Hawaii's.
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the rugged landscape of the West
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After another mile, Chapel-le-Dale is reached, an oasis of greenery in a bleak landscape .
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The landscape itself indicates the extent of the danger.
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The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Oare on Exmoor Somerset.
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The ecology movement often works best in behalf of winsome landscapes and wildlife.
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Yet even here the actual extent to which the rural landscape was altered is considerably less than we might suppose.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A great deal of work was done at that time in enlarging and landscaping the park, creating lakes and the kitchen gardens.
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Among ideas being considered are landscaping, tree planting, screening of trackside eyesores and a big clean-up campaign.
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It says its traffic surveys show the road can take extra vehicles and that the site would be tastefully landscaped.
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Nobody is denying that Mr Steward has attempted to landscape and improve aspects of his farm.