I. pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a friend of mine/yours/Bill’s etc
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A friend of mine is going to Tokyo next week.
a mining community
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She was brought up in a small mining community in North Wales.
coal mine
data mining
mine/elevator/ventilation etc shaft
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a 300-foot elevator shaft
strip mine
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
your guess is as good as mine
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"When's the next bus coming?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
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"Who do you think will win the World Cup?" "Your guess is as good as mine."
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
copper
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A count of women and children at copper mines in 1787 suggests that then women workers may have numbered around 1,500.
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Economic unrest Workers at coal and copper mines went on strike during late July, demanding wage rises and improved conditions.
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Among the worst culprits, the report says, are copper mines .
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Male speaker I worked in a copper mine for nearly three years, 18 hours a day, seven days a week.
deep
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The deeper mines filled easily with water but, unlike coal mines, they were safe from roof collapse.
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It recommends halving opencast within five years and subsidising deep mines by over £5 per tonne to produce the coal instead of us!
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This is only partly because digging and operating deep mines is, in itself, extremely difficult.
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The implication of that for Nottinghamshire's deep mines is catastrophic.
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Here the National Coal Board is investing Government money to sink new deep mines , each costing about £50 million.
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The move could see the company operating golf courses and industrial estates along with deep and opencast mines .
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Ffoss Las is the deepest opencast mine going to a depth of 650 feet.
different
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Her experience, I reasoned, would have been so different from mine .
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And his family was very different from mine .
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His thought processes are entirely different from mine .
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MotherRisk's view is different from mine .
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I stipulated that it had to be different from mine .
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Their lives were very different from mine .
gold
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We'd found a gold mine .
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A gold mine may be coming into Lincoln one day.
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Security Man in the gold mines .
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And ultimately, that could be its real gold mine .
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It is even possible to sow plants on gold mines to reap their treasure.
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Behind him is the abyss, the gaping cavern of the gold mine , down and down into the earth.
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Six months were spent in a gold mine as a geological assistant.
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It would be so easy to believe that the Raiders had finally tunneled through, finding their own gold mine of talent.
large
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Authorities encourage large pit-mines, pointing to the employment they create.
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The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall.
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Broken Hill has a large new platinum mine there.
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In a 1952 revolution they overthrew a military regime and won nationalization of the large mines under workers' co-management.
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Why are the new large mines much deeper?
old
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Some old mine buildings in the distance, some gravel pits.
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Exploring old mines and ghost towns.
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Some environmentalists have expressed concern that using old mines as waste dumps could be both dangerous and expensive.
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After examining the wreck, we continue along the faint remains of the old mine road, just west of Mescal Peak.
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This small working is another of these old mines which was dug open and entered by the writer years ago.
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We follow the old mine road back to the truck.
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Deeper still nameless horrors crawled into the old Dwarf mines and settled in the long-abandoned depths.
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Many of the hillsides are honeycombed with old mine tunnels.
silver
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These are by Platzer of 1759 and serve as a reminder of the wealth of the silver mines in Bohemia and Silesia.
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I walked on that box for three months till I got work in a silver mine .
small
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The Montagne is dotted with small lignite mines , many deserted, which have traditionally supplied the Champagne grower.
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APCs were vulnerable to smaller mines , and trucks or jeeps were obviously in even more danger.
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Undoubtedly this is the small mine up in the head of Red Dell.
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It was interested in taking over a small mine called Wheal Concord but pulled out because financial prospects were poor.
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Local producers can, depending on transportation costs, more readily locate refining and smelting units near small mines .
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Within 2 days of the start, an explosion had wrecked a drilling machine at a small non-union mine .
■ NOUN
coal
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I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.
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The cars are usually air-conditioned, but the platforms are as comfy as coal mines .
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The cleft stick plight which is his current political position is displayed most vividly over Mr Heseltine's coal mine dilemma.
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Instead you want to work in the coal mines with the rest of them.
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Other co-products include calcium chloride, with applications ranging from the oil and chemical industries to dust-laying in coal mines .
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These tough animals, who live on the moors year round, were once used extensively in the coal mines .
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The deeper mines filled easily with water but, unlike coal mines, they were safe from roof collapse.
land
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We'd been providing cover for the convoy, when a vehicle went over a land mine .
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The story deals with the aftermath of warfare, particularly the devastation wreaked by land mines .
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To deplore children being crippled by land mines is not really at the pinnacle of human courage, is it?
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Rifle grenades, land mines , dynamite, antitank guns, mortar shells.
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Ferric had land mines stacked in his kitchen.
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The driver let the blade down and detonated a land mine .
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Only the simpler, uglier land mine has shed more blood.
lead
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He was in a lead mine when the bomb went off, and escaped damage.
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The remains of eighteenth-century lead mines on the Pennines are preserved.
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Old lead mines in the Pennine Hills were being closed.
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Better than the lead mines of Yakutsia.
owner
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Miners saw their employers, the mine owners , as wicked and morally corrupt.
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Fortunes were made by some mine owners and millions of pounds'-worth of lead was taken.
tin
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He invented the Cornish engine, a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines .
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Why were most of the tin mines in Cornwall closed earlier this century?
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The expanding copper and tin mines of west Cornwall depended on mule trains until the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Producing tin mine with co-product zinc and by-product copper and silver.
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In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast.
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At one time there were 400 tin mines in Cornwall alone.
■ VERB
close
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Yeb's big hand closes around mine , and we wait in strangled silence to be delivered.
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Even before they closed the mine we knew that once they retired my husband we'd have to move.
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I suppose once we didn't need the coal so badly they closed the mine down, then the railway.
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I felt their arms on my shoulders and their ripe, expectant, human faces very close to mine .
lay
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They lay mine fields or clear them up, provide demolitions and surprisingly provide the water source for units in action.
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After the men were down, soldiers from each position would lay out claymore mines .
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We were taught about hand grenades and explosives, and how to set ambushes and lay mines in the most effective pattern.
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There were also ten 21-inch torpedo tubes, and it possessed the ability to lay up to 240 mines .
work
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I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager's certificate.
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And from Sonoma men rode or walked north to work the mines of the southern Sierra.
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The interrogators were quietly sacked and sent to work in the coal mines .
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The guys who work the Rosemont mine will just be the guys who move over from the Mission unit.
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For the next ten years he travelled the world, visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent.
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He and some friends were working the mine , digging out turquoise.
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John Blackwall now reappears, five years after first expressing his interest in working Sir Daniel's mines .
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Ainslie spent at least five years working in mines before becoming a federal inspector about 13 years ago, Hansen said.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an old gold mine
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Before World War I more than a million workers labored in the coal mines of Great Britain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Wheal Jane, Cornwall's biggest mine , has announced that it wants to extend its workings.
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Deliberately he walked into the minefield, triggering off every mine and thus absorbing in his own body the entire explosion.
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He was scarcely out of school before he had patented a rock-boring machine for coal mines.
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In it are the different specimens of salt which are found in the mine , some of the red and white crystals.
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Nothing has yet happened in the mines.
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The barrier between the mines could be tunnelled through and an escape route created.
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The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
coal
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For centuries small amounts of coal had been mined from shallow pits.
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Poor, ignorant people in coal mines and steel mills?
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Later they changed to steam power, using the coal which was mined locally.
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There is something about coal mining that seems to brutalize a place.
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In Britain in 1690 three million tons of coal were mined .
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Much of the coal mined , however, may have been consumed domestically, or used for iron-smelting or lime-burning.
copper
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Turquoise, originally considered a mere by-product of copper mining , was vigorously promoted by Waddell's father, B.C.
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Salt Lake City decided in the 1970s to add high-technology development to its copper mining based economy.
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Endless pollution from deep within a mountain side Iron Mountain is riddled with abandoned copper mines .
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They mine the copper in the mining districts and they direct the trading stations...
data
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The growth of data mining has led many to worry about invasions of privacy by overzealous marketers.
gold
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The file contained a gold mine .
land
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The two cleanly scrubbed grunts had made a final discovery: land mines last and last.
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Every 22 minutes a man, woman or child is killed or maimed by a land mine .
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Her stance on the question of land mines has been apolitical throughout.
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There are an estimated 100 million land mines in 60 countries.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Lead has been mined in this area for hundreds of years.
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Most of the new settlers came here to mine for gold.
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Simon mines his childhood experiences for his plays.
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The border is heavily mined.
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The church was built by Don Jose de la Borda, who made his fortune mining silver.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The Chechen rebels can still mount hit-and-run attacks, mining roads and ambushing convoys.