noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
public nuisance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bloody
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And it was a bloody nuisance having all those people clomping through the field on Sundays!
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She was glad he liked Middy despite his being a bloody nuisance at times.
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They must have been a bloody nuisance .
private
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We have considered the tort of private nuisance; public nuisance should also be mentioned.
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The civil law, mainly through the torts of trespass and private nuisance , also had a role to play.
public
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The aim of the law of public nuisance is to prevent interference with the rights of the public at large.
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Those who reside or work where zoning laws prohibit public nuisances need not apply.
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We have considered the tort of private nuisance; public nuisance should also be mentioned.
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The children targeted were a public eyesore, nuisance , or perceived threat.
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Are there no controls over the extent to which a demented public servant can make a public nuisance of himself?
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Tell that woman she is a public nuisance .
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I therefore reject the submission that a public nuisance requires an unlawful act.
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She should be declared a public nuisance and paved over for a parking lot.
statutory
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He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance .
■ NOUN
noise
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Fighting factory pollution and noise nuisance problems.
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Nuisances: A streamlining of local authority procedures to make the tackling of noise nuisances simpler is proposed.
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I wonder how many motorcyclists are made aware of the noise nuisance that they produce?
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We learnt later that they had also advised her neighbours to take out a summons against her for noise nuisance .
order
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Defences Two defences are available to a defendant in proceedings for a nuisance order .
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If the complaint is proved, a nuisance order is made requiring the defendant to get the necessary work done.
■ VERB
abate
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They must first order the respondent to abate the nuisance .
amount
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Consequently, odours may amount to a public nuisance if they substantially inconvenience a sufficient number of people.
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The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law?
become
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And yet it is no wonder that Lear, with all his knights, is becoming a nuisance .
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His battalion commander was becoming a nuisance .
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I fear that from becoming perhaps a local nuisance he will become a pest.
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I tried to discourage him, but in the end he became a little bit of a nuisance , you know?
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That my being alive and changing and having a separate mind and having moods and all that was becoming a nuisance .
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Peckham Fair, south London fair and menagerie of ancient origin, abolished in 1827 after becoming a nuisance .
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When food is short, the balance changes and the spinsters become a nuisance .
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Further into the middle of the site and positive iron became a nuisance .
cause
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The foxes cause little nuisance , whereas domestic pets befoul the streets, parks and gardens.
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It led to the famous judgement of Sir James Stephen, that cremation is legal provided it causes no nuisance to others.
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It is First Alert that has targeted low concentrations and caused most of the nuisance alarms, he said.
make
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Some, as you know, seek revenge - they riot, they take drugs and generally make damned nuisances of themselves.
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Dropouts from drama school who had learned just enough about theatricality to make a nuisance of themselves.
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I've got some one from the village coming in every day to check that no one tries making a nuisance of themselves.
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Once he went up there and ran around making a nuisance .
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He said he was not satisfied that a case had been made that a nuisance was being caused.
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What was so fascinating about him that they had to make themselves a nuisance around him?
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I was instructed not to be too early - to wait quietly outside the entrance and not make a nuisance of myself.
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It's just I don't relish any of Jahsaxa's colleagues making a nuisance of themselves here.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thorough pest/nuisance/mess
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rabbits can be a nuisance to gardeners.
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The overgrown vacant lot was declared a public nuisance .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Compass errors are an awful nuisance and it is well worth finding out a little about them.
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He says it is a nuisance but he's putting up with it.
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His battalion commander was becoming a nuisance .
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Missing are neighborhood and business associations: two groups that pushed hard during the former administration for a crackdown on nuisance crimes.
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She said he was a nuisance and that the council ought to do something about it.
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The flies which on the previous day had been a nuisance to them were now a torment.
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They were a necessary nuisance that provided the rationale for what Bureau men really loved to do: build majestic dams.
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Wet, moldy basements may be more than a nuisance .