noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a parish church British English (= the main Christian church in a particular area )
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This is the parish church for three villages near here.
parish church
parish clerk
parish pump
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parish pump politics
parish register
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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large
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Several more substantial gentry houses can still be found in the rural parts of Dronfield's large parish .
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The population of its large parish , which included several rural outliers, stood at about 2,700.
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They are much larger than parishes or townships.
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This large parish now had two Anglican churches but Nonconformity was as pronounced as it had been in the seventeenth century.
local
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A variety of independent museum are run by Trusts, local societies, parish councils and enthusiastic individuals.
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Another college calls on local parish organists and music group leaders to help with occasional workshops.
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Wilson was educated in the local parish school.
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The local parish council has been debating a possible site since nineteen sixty-four.
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William had regularly attended the local parish Church but had not shown any particular religious interest.
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The local parish council has often been in the hands of a group leading the area into decline.
rural
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May I suggest that you include the rural parishes in Wyre District as far south as Garstang in this consultation.
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Distribution of guilds was uneven, many rural parishes having none at all, while a town might contain several.
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In 1660 provision was very limited, especially in the rural parishes .
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Some rural parishes also recorded relatively high adventitious populations.
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He was vicar of a rural parish in which he was very happy and had no desire to move.
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Such demographic changes wrought by industrialism meant the decline of rural parishes and the creation of a new urbanised and industrial poor.
small
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In 1563 this small parish contained twenty-one families but by 1670 only eight households remained.
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To a small parish church with few resources, the laws of copyright may seem somewhat overbearing.
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The smaller parish or community council may prefer to carry out all business through the full council instead of appointing committees.
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boundary
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By the 1820s Brighton had sprawled along several miles of cliff top, almost to the edge of its parish boundaries .
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Another reason for such sharp changes of alignment in otherwise straight enclosure roads is parish boundaries .
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Passing over the parish boundary at Sunderlandwick, the old toll bar is on the right, and Bar Farm opposite.
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When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries .
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He noted the incidence of barrows reused as Saxon cemeteries and other Saxon burials on or near parish boundaries in Wessex.
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The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest, but there may have been 150 of these by 1066.
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Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks.
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In our own case, if we were free to plant beyond our parish boundaries , we should already have done so.
church
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It benefits from a lovely site, opposite the parish church and close to farm buildings, away from the village centre.
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The parish church at Chiaramonte has possession of the remains, which are kept under the altar in an ancient urn.
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This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church .
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Father Luke pedalled backwards in the direction of Whitechapel's parish church and fell over the barrow.
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The latter was recognised when the former religious hospital became the parish church of St John the Baptist in the fourteenth century.
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About 400 loyalist protesters gathered opposite police barriers below Drumcree parish church .
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The family has been told a rabbit would be allowed on the head stone of the infant in the parish church .
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At last they reached the village and joined the rest of the crowd as they thronged towards the green in front of the parish church .
clergy
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All authority, both of chapter and parish clergy derives from the bishop.
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The parish clergy had to give up their concubines and accept a higher degree of accountability for performance of their duties.
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Very high among Innocent III's ambitions was the improvement of the parish clergy .
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Other monks of the house became parish clergy .
clerk
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The parish clerk was asked to report the matter to the area surveyor.
council
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Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal.
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Council meeting: The parish council met yesterday.
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In February 1988 the parish council launched a campaign for the provision of sea defences.
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However the parish council disapproved of the plan because of the possible distraction it would cause to drivers.
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There is also a third tier of parish councils , with minimal powers.
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A variety of independent museum are run by Trusts, local societies, parish councils and enthusiastic individuals.
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At the third tier, parish councils were created in 1894 and charged with administering poor relief.
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He was also on parish councils and acted as the school's manager.
councillor
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He concluded by thanking vice-chairman Tony Rudgard who has produced the useful monthly newsletter for parish councillors .
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Campaigners now hope parish councillors will abandon their scheme for 30 new lights and accept alternative proposals instead.
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He is a parish councillor , school governor and a member of Yorkshire Water Consultative Committee.
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He spent 33 years as a parish councillor , 24 of them as parish council chairman.
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Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.
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I enclose some of your forms completed to the best of my ability from information given by parish councillors .
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Garvey had difficulty in making a passer-by understand that he wanted to speak to a parish councillor or the Bishop.
hall
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Afterwards we braved the blizzards and all met for tea and home baking in the parish hall .
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On entering the parish hall , he was surprised to smell the unmistakable odor of chicken noodle soup.
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Rich/Poor meal - sell tickets for a meal, use your parish hall .
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He turned the key in the lock, and went in the side door of the old parish hall .
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We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village.
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Though several people still mingled in the parish hall , they were alone in the kitchen.
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The visitors will have a buffet reception on Saturday night in the parish hall .
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It was an evening when I knew Lily went to a weekly patriotic sewing and knitting circle in a near-by parish hall .
magazine
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When it comes to advertising, more use could be made of diocesan newspapers in addition to parish magazines and the local press.
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An appeal in the parish magazine has raised three thousand pounds, still leaving them five thousand short.
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The parish magazines were Church business: Anna was the Rector's wife.
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I went round this morning with the parish magazine .
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So Hannah, 16, penned an open reply in her dad's parish magazine .
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She had been expecting Hubert Molland with the parish magazine , which was why she had answered the door.
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I suppose that this means that this month's parish magazine should be a special holiday edition.
priest
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This had a record of superb parish priests and a full congregation.
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He immersed himself in parish work and made himself indispensable to the overworked parish priest .
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Y., who had accepted him as a parish priest .
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He's a sort of diocesan works manager responsible to the bishop for the smooth running of the parish priests .
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Arsenio Carrillo served as a parish priest at San Agust n from 1956 to 1963, and returned in 1969.
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The 10,300 parish priests whose job it is to man these churches are thus a rather scant resource.
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Later she told her parish priest .
register
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This also explains why there is no record of the burials in the parish register .
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The plaintiff was unlawfully charged for making extracts from a parish register , and was held entitled to recover back the payments.
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The surplus recorded in the parish register must have been lost through migration to other places.
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Wherever possible, they should be used in conjunction with parish registers and other sources.
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Indeed, in the author's own village the parish register was being kept in Latin as late as 1657.
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Such measures of absences from parish registers are the crudest of indicators, but other evidence points in the same direction.
■ VERB
become
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When not quite fourteen years old he became organist of his parish church, San Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome.
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This was the only Nonconformist chapel Butterfield ever designed and in 1976 it became a parish church.
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Under the plan, the missions were to become parish churches and the neophytes were to be released from mission jurisdiction.
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The latter was recognised when the former religious hospital became the parish church of St John the Baptist in the fourteenth century.
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Not all, however, survived, and of those that did, not all became parish churches.
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Other monks of the house became parish clergy.
live
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I live in a parish of 12,000 and a town of 30,000.
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Sacraments are given by priests living in the nearest parish .
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Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.
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Ramsey could find nowhere to live within the parish .
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I think she still lives in the parish and commutes in.
serve
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Some had served the parish in the past, others were from the local Deanery.
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He has twice served as parish priest there over 10 years.
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Arsenio Carrillo served as a parish priest at San Agust n from 1956 to 1963, and returned in 1969.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a parish priest
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And though there were plenty of strong opinions, much of the parish still seemed profoundly ambivalent about the protest.
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By mid-February the archdiocese had yet to release its report on the parish , and he was beginning to worry.
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However the parish council disapproved of the plan because of the possible distraction it would cause to drivers.
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In 1660 provision was very limited, especially in the rural parishes.
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In 1839 several townlands from Seagoe were joined with some from Tullylish to form the parish of Knocknamuckley.
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The name also appears repeatedly in the parish registers from 1562 onwards.
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There is also a third tier of parish councils, with minimal powers.