verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crazy paving
paving stone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
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The 1770s house had become a boarding house and the eighteenth-century garden paved over as the city bus station.
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Mission Valley was being paved over and a freeway would soon be open all the way to Los Angeles.
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What they fear is inevitable growth and change: The paving over of the California of their past.
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She should be declared a public nuisance and paved over for a parking lot.
■ NOUN
gold
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Here where the streets are not paved with gold , but with garbage.
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Some had been told the streets were paved of gold .
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They say it's paved with gold .
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But for one weekend at least, the streets of Silverstone are paved with gold .
road
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With time, the government grants a DeFacto recognition by installing running water, electricity, and by paving the roads .
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Horsemen gallop along a paved road , slowing to offer tourists a trek to the Sphinx.
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Recent models of Toyotas drive along paved roads instead of pot-holed mud tracks.
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An autonomous land vehicle, for instance, would not be autonomous if it could only operate on paved roads .
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Can you imagine driving 49 miles on a good, paved road in California and not seeing another car?
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You need to pave the roads .
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For Motijhil boasts paved roads , electricity, a proper drinking water supply and sewage.
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There were few paved roads , and most of the roads were so narrow only one car could pass.
street
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York, among many towns which have pedestrianised their centres, has paved many of its streets without adverse effect.
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There are no paved streets , sewage, electricity or water services.
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They pass a long, winding crack in the paved street he does re-member.
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The streets were dismal, a far cry from the paved streets and brick sidewalks of Philadelphia.
way
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The Ports Act 1991 has paved the way for this privatisation of the Trust Ports by competitive tender.
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But the Black-Scholes model paved the way for wide use throughout the financial community.
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And this does, of course, pave the way for all manner of hilarious aircraft-undercarriage impressions at parties.
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These two studies paved the way for opening the doors of the premature nursery to parents.
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The mouse is exceptionally good and paves the way for its use in future game titles.
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It may have paved the way for the 1992 election of Democrat Bill Clinton.
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Whitehall appeared earlier to pave the way for the change by softening its line on public spending.
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The recommendations at the end of this chapter may help parents pave the way .
■ VERB
help
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The recommendations at the end of this chapter may help parents pave the way.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
clear/pave/open/prepare etc the way (for sth)
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Earlier legislation paved the way by limiting the use of custody as a penalty for offenders under the age of twenty-one.
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He believes the Government has missed the opportunity to pave the way for badly needed investment.
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He gave as an example some of the early work in genetics which has paved the way for biotechnological developments.
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She would pave the way for a much more slender ideal: the flapper.
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Such developments are paving the way to rapprochement between conventional and complementary medicine.
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Was he paving the way for another referendum?
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When Ken wants to give his girlfriend a kiss he first calls in a construction team to clear the way .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The road through the valley was only paved last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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If both you and the other person can find something to laugh about together it paves the way for a harmonious transaction.
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Not only were the streets impeccably paved, clean and lined with inviting shops, they were flanked by bike lanes.
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The Ports Act 1991 has paved the way for this privatisation of the Trust Ports by competitive tender.
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They merely pave the way for an increasing proportion of those emissions to come from the burning of imported coal.
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Two thousand sick and injured soldiers were laid like paving stones in four miles of corridors.