adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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Are we discussing implications of 192 with our neighbouring areas ?
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More striking still was the failure of the Green movement to link up with Kursk or any other neighbouring area .
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So shopkeepers have joined forces to attract people into the town, with a special publication circulated in neighbouring areas .
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In these cases, provision of public services in one area confers a beneficial externality on neighbouring areas.
country
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Considerable concern focused on the effect the change would have on neighbouring countries .
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Other neighbouring countries hanged their criminals, of course.
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The thieves led the horses out of the stable into the neighbouring country park, where they had vehicles waiting.
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None the less, unofficial exports between neighbouring countries are likely to continue to increase, but to go largely unrecorded.
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Pray that the conflict would not spread to neighbouring countries .
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Most refugees go to neighbouring countries , which are often living at subsistence levels themselves.
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On a far more extensive scale than we have done hitherto, we must help refugees in their own and neighbouring countries .
house
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Let us imagine two neighbouring houses .
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On the left was the neighbouring house , on the right the front garden of the farm.
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He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses .
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The blaze also spread to a neighbouring house , damaging three windows and some plastic guttering.
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Mrs Bahia lived in a neighbouring house .
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It is probably not a coincidence that, where the song was recorded, a trimphone is installed in a neighbouring house .
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Bomb wrecks Ulster hotel A bomb has wrecked a hotel in Ulster and damage neighbouring houses .
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There was a party for the servants in a neighbouring house , and a few of us were invited to it.
parish
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In his last years he lived in Wymondham and continued to preach in Wymondham Abbey and neighbouring parishes .
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A neighbouring parish may have its last year's experience to report.
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The priest obviously bussed in from the neighbouring parish to run the show here.
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I took the bus to the neighbouring parish and told an unseen, unknown priest all that had happened.
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It is often reflected in parishes or estates with detached portions elsewhere, or areas shared in common with neighbouring parishes.
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Recent local studies have emphasized how different the fortunes of neighbouring parishes could be.
property
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Another example is where a burst pipe occurs in our policyholder's home causing water damage to neighbouring property .
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This deals with those facilities enjoyed exclusively by the property to be sold over neighbouring property.
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Due to the negligence of the defendant's employees, borstal trainees escaped and caused damage to neighbouring property .
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I assure my hon. Friend that lighting schemes will be designed to minimise visual intrusion into neighbouring property .
school
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It's surprising how little most teachers know about neighbouring schools .
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There is nothing wrong in seeking an invitation to go and look around a neighbouring school to explore possibilities of working together.
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A useful activity is to pull together the governors of several neighbouring schools for training and updating on topical issues.
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Defensive marketing check list Have you copies of the prospectuses of neighbouring schools including those in the private sector?
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Exam results are looked at closely, subject by subject, and comparisons are made with previous years and with neighbouring schools .
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Such development planning commits the school to improvement and to constructive competition against itself rather than against the neighbouring school.
state
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It covers fisheries, marine mammals and other resources within EEZs, providing for stocks that are shared by neighbouring states .
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My best bet would probably be to fly into one of the neighbouring states and sneak over the border at night.
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Relations between the two neighbouring states had been tense in recent years because of the Bougainville conflict.
town
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According to security sources, massive bombs which wrecked neighbouring towns , had been destined for Portadown.
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The neighbouring town of Hesket New Market has a delightful pub with its own brewed beer.
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On the day before Republic Day, the police presence around Bhilai and the neighbouring towns is heavy.
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Other occupations are of necessity followed in the neighbouring towns so to some extent Lockington is a commuter village.
village
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Eventually the committee agreed to defer a decision to see if the school could team up with neighbouring villages to boost numbers.
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Recently he moved to the neighbouring village of Griesbeckerzell with wife Gisela and their year-old son, Stefan.
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She was admitted to an exclusive private clinic in a neighbouring village .
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They had little in common with neighbouring villages whose squires kept the collieries and colliers out of sight.
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The crowds were out in force to cheer home Jodami as he reached the neighbouring village of Stillington.
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Strangers, surely, from other farms, neighbouring villages .
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The neighbouring village of Kalami, once the home of naturalist Gerald Durrell, is worth a visit too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The fair attracted thousands of people from neighbouring areas.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A neighbouring farmer had a lucky escape.
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But it was a time of several kingdoms and Princess Thanew was proposed to by a neighbouring king.
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Guests are welcome to use the facilities of the neighbouring Hotel Maria Theresia which include free sauna and steambath.
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Mike Chittenden staggered in flames into a neighbouring office where terrified workers doused the flames.
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Moktadir, who was seriously threatened by the neighbouring kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon, gladly accepted.
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Pray that the conflict would not spread to neighbouring countries.
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The thieves led the horses out of the stable into the neighbouring country park, where they had vehicles waiting.
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Their craggy Nab, poised above the Tees estuary, was as proud a landmark as neighbouring Roseberry Topping.