adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a southern/northern accent
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He spoke with a lovely soft southern accent.
northern hemisphere
Northern Rock
Police Service of Northern Ireland, the
the eastern/northern etc slopes of sth
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Vines are grown on the eastern slopes of Mont Bernon.
the northern/southern etc boundary (= of an area or city )
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the southern boundary of San Francisco
the northern/southern etc edge (= the part of an area that is close to the point where the area ends )
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There’s a ridge of hills on the northern edge of the county.
the northern/southern half
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The northern half of the city is generally poorer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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What difference is there between the Southern Uplands and the northern areas ?
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In more northern areas this plant drops its leaves for the winter.
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The northern area from Rijeka to Zadar was incorporated into the military frontier, which was under the control of the Habsburgs.
border
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They have the excuse of securing their northern borders .
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All three cities were founded by the ancient Romans along the northern border of the Empire.
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Valmir von Raukov is a tough warlord whose constant vigil has protected the northern borders of the Empire for many years.
city
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As northern cities became symbols for industrial collapse and unemployment, so symbolic solutions had to be proffered.
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The buffalo robes were good for keeping warm in carriages in northern cities .
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In the northern city of Greifswald, a kindergarten to be used to house refugees seeking asylum was burned down.
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Jobs and relief agencies were scarce in northern cities , where anti-Negro sentiment kept growing.
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In December 1980, there was a serious outbreak of rioting by religious fanatics in the northern city of Kano.
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Police made the arrests yesterday in the northern cities of Verona, Padua, Ferrara and Venice.
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Mr Rodetsky's supporters claim that television stations in the northern cities denied him television time due to him by law.
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A kindergarten housing asylum-seeking refugees was burned down in the northern city of Greifswald.
coast
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The most recent road circuits the northern coast of the Applecross peninsula and branches from the Lochcarron road outside Shieldaig.
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In the end, this small valley along the northern coast of California will become a solid block of life.
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This small area was centred around Oviedo on the northern coast .
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Now they come from the central and northern coasts of California.
edge
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We have already seen that tunnels at the northern edge of the High Wood were used as the Library of the system.
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So Elizondo remains in the Wynne prison unit on the northern edge of Huntsville, Texas.
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A strong anomaly near Broadclyst is probably caused by the northern edge of a concealed southward-dipping lava sheet.
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At its peak last week, about 500 people were camping in the woods on the northern edge of Lake County.
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The wind sock was on the northern edge .
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At the time, it lay on the northern edge of Baltimore Town.
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Beyond, the huge sea cliffs of the northern edge of Heimæy form a sharp ridge that offers an airy walk.
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The winds from the northern edge of Hugo whipped tourist communities around Myrtle Beach.
end
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If they kept to themselves, the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off.
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Approaching the northern end of the street from the west, one reaches Galerie Sonne.
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At the northern end of the larger bay lie the town of Kalloni and its nearby solar saltworks.
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It starts from the dam at the northern end of the Talybont reservoir.
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From the northern end of the village street, a lane runs towards the river and the church.
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Here there is a sheepfold with a stream disappearing into a fissure alongside its northern end .
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Omegna Market, at the northern end of Lake Orta, is a must if you want to haggle over souvenirs.
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There are two downpipes at the northern end of the house, and one at the same end of the conservatory.
forest
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Once more the inhabitants of the northern forests showed their impatience of these delays.
half
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Poor in the estuaries in the northern half of Morecambe Bay and not much prospect of improvement.
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Many walkers, particularly Brits, prefer to start in the south, reaching the more spectacular northern half when acclimatised.
hemisphere
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Mile after mile, country after country, the sun ripens grass stems and seeds across the northern hemisphere .
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All of the eruptions except Krakatoa happened in the northern hemisphere , and together they show a clear pattern of behaviour.
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So by mid-Silurian times the plates that are now in the northern hemisphere were again stable and low in relief.
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The timing of events in the systems described below is applicable to the calender of the northern hemisphere .
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For many months there was a very stable weather pattern affecting most of the northern hemisphere .
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Brown and McCormick's skuas and Wilson's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere .
part
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The Sassanians expanded eastwards to incorporate into their state the northern part of the disintegrating Kushan empire.
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The mapping and mineral exploration of the northern part of the island of Malaita was started during the year.
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Everyone who lives across the northern part of this land.
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Outlook for tomorrow and Wednesday: Outbreaks of rain will spread across northern parts .
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In the northern part of the region the Abbey of Fleury, now S. Benôit-sur-Loire, presents a fine, mature example.
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This lies in the northern part of the Empire and beyond it is Ostland, the northernmost of the Empire's provinces.
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There are only a few thousand maleos left, most of them in the northern parts of the island.
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In 1978, the parish was divided in two, and the northern part became St Paul's, Beechwood.
region
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For example, in Ovamboland, the northern region , worst hit by the war, drop-out rates at primary school are highest.
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The first dives will be in the northern region , at the Flow Site, where the lavas escaped on to the seafloor.
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This year we are spending £42.2 million on our northern region urban programme.
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A number of military commanders from the southern, central and northern regions were appointed as ministers on Sept. 24.
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Do the Government intend to introduce initiatives to help that area which is, of course, part of the northern region ?
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In the northern region alone, there are more than 220 foreign-owned businesses employing more than 42,000 people.
shore
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In the thirteenth century the bishop of Durham instigated extensive drainage works along the northern shores of the Humber.
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It was the northern shore of Oahu.
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From there a good road leads to Rapperswil and the northern shore of the Zurichsee.
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It was certainly unique, such an Exhibition, so near the northern shore and the Pentland waves.
side
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The towns were generally laid out on the northern side of the tracks.
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Fish the northern side of Bird Island with jigs tipped with minnows at dawn for best results.
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The new sentry on the northern side was a twenty-one-year-old Berliner called Manfred.
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Across the river on the northern side it looks no brighter than over here.
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About one mile from the dam on the northern side of the lake is a magnificent Gothic style tower.
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The eastern end of this bay on its northern side was the area devoted to motor van and motor flat repairs.
slope
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Route to summit requires some tough scrambling, before a descent on the grassy northern slopes .
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A sunny south-facing mound will lose more precious moisture to evaporation than a shadier northern slope .
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The largest used quarry is at Torphin on the northern slopes .
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One of the elder Falkenhayn's divisions alone left 2,200 men on the blood-soaked northern slopes of the Mort Homme.
state
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Ciudad Juarez, on the border with Texas in the northern state of Chihuahua.
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Along the eastern seaboard, army units were moved from northern states into the South to prevent suspected insurrection.
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Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.
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He did not see why northern states should aid them in this endeavor.
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In 1835, southern legislatures asked northern states to pass legislation suppressing abolitionist publications.
suburb
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These were superseded by more substantial updraught kilns which have been found right across the northern suburbs .
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Even the water tower in Addison, a northern suburb , is bathed in blue light.
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A feeder tramway would link the extension to the northern suburb of Bohnice.
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Seductive country, then, to charm a young London schoolteacher away from the semi-rural but crowded northern suburbs of the capital.
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Nuclear plants are sprinkled liberally across the capital, with a particularly dense clump in the northern suburbs .
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As they left the northern suburbs , the car began to tremble in Jed's hands.
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When Peter was made curate in a northern suburb of Bristol, Anna celebrated the event by becoming pregnant.
tip
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The ramshackle bus-boat back to Tekek around the northern tip of the island takes three hours, the same as the walk.
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But the old pier was built on top of the northern tip , and the coral below died, he said.
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Seven ruff, without as yet their elaborate courtship adornments, fed at the northern tip of a tyke.
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The northern tip of the bay lies in the Lake District National Park.
town
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The events which followed put the police force of a large northern town on full alert for a missing officer.
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In the tiny northern town of Sugar Hill, the police chief picks one day a month and issues tickets.
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The fruit of the little enlivening the quaint old northern town has got through the Exhibition may be seen by-and-bye.
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On the other hand, its members were scattered all over the United Kingdom, which made a northern town central.
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They have in one northern town , anyway.
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Wigan is interesting as a small northern town , sort of happy to be a little, quiet, workers' town.
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Riot act Friday July 10 in a small northern town , there was nearly a riot.
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Every northern town , they say, is under their control except Mosul, which they claim to have surrounded.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the northern hemisphere
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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northern Maryland
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alongside these individual contributions, Gloucester's northern connection also provided the muscle behind his coup.
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By the twentieth century, it was still active, maintaining a theological school at Nisibis in northern Mesopotamia.
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Ciudad Juarez, on the border with Texas in the northern state of Chihuahua.
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It is in the north that Richard's power was greatest and he is now usually regarded as a northern figure.
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It was his voice and his northern accent.
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Like the provincial nobility of the northern provinces, this was a working nobility.
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Mr Hattersley, in Darlington to meet Labour's northern candidates, said he would make extra police manpower a top priority.
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This would help ensure the poorer countries did not repeat the environmental mistakes of the northern hemisphere as they pursued economic development.