I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cardboard/wooden/plastic box
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We packed all our things into big cardboard boxes.
a paper/plastic/china cup (= one made of paper etc )
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All they had to drink was warm beer in plastic cups.
a plastic/glass/metal etc container
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A lot of food is sold in plastic containers.
a plastic/polythene/paper bag
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Store the beans in a paper bag in the fridge.
a rubber/plastic bullet (= one made of rubber/plastic, not designed to kill )
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Riot police fired plastic bullets into the air.
a sealed container/box/plastic bag
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The specimens he collected were sent back to London in sealed containers.
a wooden/plastic/leather etc chair
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In the kitchen was a table with six wooden chairs around it.
cosmetic/plastic surgery (= surgery to improve someone’s appearance )
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More and more people are choosing to have plastic surgery.
plastic bullet
plastic explosive
plastic surgery
plastic wrap
plastic/rubber/metal etc sheeting
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The roof was covered in plastic sheeting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Plant in the same way as for trees and shrubs, mulching the prepared ground with black plastic or strips of old carpet.
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Each was lined with several layers of black plastic U. S. Government burn bag and the plastic sealed with masking tape.
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Even the hipsters - a purple and blue check, with a wide black plastic belt - had been preserved.
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So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets, old carpets or sacking.
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It was a black plastic dustbin bag.
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Three people, including two of our three women, pursued an S &038; M theme with leather and black plastic .
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Ellis opened the cupboard and took out a small black plastic suitcase.
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Inside was a single ultra-thin sheet of what seemed like pure black plastic .
clear
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You can also get them with space for a name card behind a clear plastic window.
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Cover the area with clear plastic and secure the edges by burying them.
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With 12 clear plastic pockets, it's a bargain at £1.98.
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Remove the clear plastic in a month.
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When they get to the pillbox they have to divide their purchases into three clear plastic bags for inspection.
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Eight big plastic dustbins were filled with clear plastic bags and flown to London.
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Stylish, clear plastic lunchbox with carrying handle, available in clear, red, yellow, purple, blue or pink.
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Place a clear piece of plastic on a window, close one eye and trace the outlines of what you see.
green
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A tea-bag, a spoon of Marvel milk-powder, and the green plastic mug was steaming triumphantly by my side.
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He puts his green plastic briefcase on the desk.
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The only other control on the green plastic body is a front-mounted on/off switch.
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It was fashioned from dark green plastic , wafer thin, yet of considerable weight.
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At the comer stood a green plastic rubbish skip, presumably the one where Ruggiero's letter had been left.
large
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If you do desire greenery, it is best to use large plastic plants.
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You have the following equipment: a large piece of plastic , rope, and an air tank.
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Read in studio People are being urged to bury large plastic cones in their gardens and then fill them with waste.
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They're asking people to look out for the substances which were in a large grey plastic box.
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Placement of large bore plastic biliary stents was a good initial treatment for cholangitis or jaundice when present.
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Thérèse poured a large plastic glassful each of red wine.
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We also had a large plastic bag which we had to get in.
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You can use a large plastic cat litter tray as a dirt-box.
red
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She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt.
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The researchers had given me an electric thermometer, a stalk of red plastic , to put in my mouth.
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There are teacups made of red plastic on the table, and a little teapot.
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One of them comes tottering up to him, falls, and pitches a red plastic fire-engine at his feet.
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As a gesture of remembrance, the city has filled in many of these indentations with red plastic .
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I couldn't go without my red plastic bucket, or rather three of them.
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I popped the red plastic thermometer in my mouth and sat checking the map.
small
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He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate, fumbling in his jacket pocket for something.
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I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
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The memory card is a small plastic card about the size of a credit card.
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Quickly I bought three chocolate liqueur bottles and a small plastic figure of a stag.
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There, taped to the bottom, was a small plastic bag of amphetamines.
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And a small plastic bag full of white powder.
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The trap looks rather like an open-ended small plastic cloche, and hangs in the tree.
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Ellis opened the cupboard and took out a small black plastic suitcase.
transparent
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When lifted and placed against a transparent plastic sheet they would show up the tiniest particle.
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He's wearing a transparent blue plastic cagoule.
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Laminate a thin transparent plastic coating applied to paper or board to provide protection and give it a glossy finish.
white
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The shoes I had on were white plastic trainers in need of polish.
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Steven loved gadgets, and Jean had one of the latest square white plastic electric kettles.
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But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table.
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She looked down at the white plastic loop that now bound her wrist to the brass rail on the table.
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The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off.
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His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet.
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And the body and headstock binding is simple white plastic , to avoid detracting from the overall look.
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For part of the antenatal survey aluminium bowls were replaced by white plastic bowls, which hampered interpretation of the clarity.
■ NOUN
bag
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He had a plastic bag in his pocket and he knelt down in the grass and scooped it up.
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The plastic bag can be removed when you have finished and the magnet will still remain clean.
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He inspected the plastic bag , satisfied that its contents had not been touched.
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Place a plastic bag in your pot and fill with ready mixed cement.
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A plastic bag containing some of his remains was found two weeks later at Reigate.
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Then seal it in a plastic bag to take home.
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The check-out clerks normally pack the already neatly wrapped fresh meat for you in a plastic bag .
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They used to be alone among the plastic bags , sorting and grading whatever had been donated.
bottle
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Wooden and plastic spoons, spatulas, empty plastic tubs, measuring scoops, a cat bell inside a taped-up plastic bottle .
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And it even comes in a plastic bottle , so it can be thrown at Teddy without causing serious injury.
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Assorted plastic bottles can be cut to the appropriate size.
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Fill an empty plastic bottle with a few lentils.
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This applies to mineral water as well - substances in the plastic bottle can leach out into the water.
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They keep their production costs low and help the environment by recycling waste material such as newspapers and household plastic bottles .
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One drum had burst open on impact with the water, leaving plastic bottles of waste floating on the surface.
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Cut a plastic bottle in half, and put a mixture of jam and water into the bottom half.
box
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He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate, fumbling in his jacket pocket for something.
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Then you take out the little plastic box from your jacket and show him the syringe needle.
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The plastic box was about seven inches long and five across.
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One tactic is simply to shield the device, by enclosing it in a metal or plastic box of low impedance.
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So I packed my plastic box , and off I went.
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Forget all the images you have of little plastic boxes and bored housewives.
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They're asking people to look out for the substances which were in a large grey plastic box .
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Once they can sit up, babies love to bash saucepans, plastic boxes , biscuit tins, cupboards and fireguards.
bucket
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I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
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The plastic buckets were slowly filled.
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If the Palaeolithic stone axe is immediately succeeded in a section by a plastic bucket , then we must suspect a gap.
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No flowers, no marble vases, just empty plastic buckets and washing-up bowls.
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I couldn't go without my red plastic bucket , or rather three of them.
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Harriet stood there in breeches and waxed jacket, holding a rope halter and a plastic bucket .
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Robinson and Porter both retrieved the small plastic buckets from one corner of the cell and wandered out on to the landing.
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He had asked for, and eventually been given, a plastic bucket of cold water and a sponge.
bullet
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Round for round plastic bullets have killed over four times as many people as their rubber predecessors.
carrier
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Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag.
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It attracted everyone from stunt flying professionals to kids with an old plastic carrier bag and a piece of string.
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She parked the car and hoisted the plastic carriers from the boot, perching the flat, be-ribboned pâtisserie box on top.
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After collecting the award Reeves slipped it into a plastic carrier bag and shortly after dropped it.
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The four sample bottles of water stood in their plastic carrier on my roomette floor.
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To waste them cleaning out a drawer of plastic carrier bags instead of scrambling up lofty pinnacles is something you may regret.
container
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The Fluid Foundation comes in a little opaque beige plastic container , and is labelled, in gold lettering, Teint Naturel.
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It consists of a plastic container and a liquid-crystal indicator strip.
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Duvall was carrying two plastic containers .
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Round about Grace herself the great river deposited little but mounds of plastic containers .
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He perched beside her and held the plastic container .
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Another group combs the refuse for tins, bottles and plastic containers to be sold on junk stalls.
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Her searching produced a roll of blankets, the first-aid box and a plastic container full of water.
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For dish washing, two plastic containers were filled with lake water, one with soap and the other for rinsing.
cover
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On the back of the body, a plastic cover offers easy access to the control cavity.
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It overheated and melted the plastic cover .
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Robinson smiled as he lifted the plastic cover from the slop bucket to reveal a lump of excrement.
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I rattled the plastic cover over the Amstrad but it was firmly locked in place.
cup
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A woman police constable deposited four plastic cups of tea on the formica.
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I gave him a Fred Flintstone plastic cup of ice water.
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Water spills Place a plastic cup full of water inside an empty bowl.
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The blades rotate inside a plastic cup , so the blender can even be used in nonstick kitchenware.
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Drinks being poured, a plastic cup crumpling, some one beating a fingertip tattoo on a table.
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Others keep on staring at their pink plastic cups .
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Kidskin sofa, a satinwood desk strewn with papers, overturned plastic cups , the surrounding chairs askew.
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He poured a generous measure into a plastic cup then slid it over the top of the desk into her hand.
explosive
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As night approached, the man was forced to put on a belt packed with plastic explosives and connected to a detonator.
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We waited for two minutes before the combined strength of thirty-five pounds of EP-12 plastic explosive tore the car apart.
pipe
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Mine gained great pleasure from playing with a piece of plastic pipe .
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Lengths of plastic pipe are useful as a cave as they are light, and easy to move.
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If space is very tight, use flexible copper pipe or plastic pipe for some if not all of the final fittings.
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Keep your hacksaw handy for cutting plastic pipe , however.
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Solvent-weld fitting Cutting plastic pipe Plastic pipe can be cut easily with a hacksaw.
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Recently, plastic pipe has become available for home plumbing for both hot and cold water pipes.
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Add a length of plastic pipe over the top of the funnel so that it comes up to the top of the bottle.
plant
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Filtration: Undergravel Decor: The tank contains slate and bogwood with plastic plants .
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No new plastics plants will be opened; no existing plants will be closed.
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However, all these species will suffer at the mouths of Scats, if you want these plant eaters choose plastic plants.
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If you do desire greenery, it is best to use large plastic plants .
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Clean rocks, plastic plants , etc in a bucket of warm water with a cupful of household bleach.
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Algae stained plastic plants can be bleached and rinsed cleaned.
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Inset shows the same set-up with a mixture of natural and plastic plants .
sheet
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So keep up the heat in your compost heap by covering it with black plastic sheets , old carpets or sacking.
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If you're basing yourself at one campsite place an old groundsheet or plastic sheet under the tent.
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The deck and superstructure is effectively a sandwich of foam contained within two fibre reinforced plastic sheets .
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The intestinal segment, covered by a thin plastic sheet , was placed on a plastic plate specially designed for this purpose.
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Esda is effectively negated because the plastic sheet ensures that no indentation is left on underlying pages.
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When lifted and placed against a transparent plastic sheet they would show up the tiniest particle.
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It's easy to be tidy, just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed.
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The corpses lay uncovered in the open on plastic sheets .
sheeting
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Also widely grown are tomatoes and strawberries, nowadays mainly under plastic sheeting .
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As strawberries ripen, push some straw or plastic sheeting under them so they can't rot on the soil.
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There were no more coffins available, but by four o'clock we had buried the soldiers, wrapped in plastic sheeting .
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Wardle Storeys, he plastic sheeting concern, had a nervous session, falling 27p to 266p.
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Soon, he knew, the two bodies would be neatly parcelled in plastic sheeting .
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Rizla waded into some plastic sheeting and resumed her second teething phase with it.
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A cheaper alternative to glass is to double glaze them yourself with plastic sheeting , but this will obviously affect their appearance.
surgeon
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For years now, self-appointed surgeons without the appropriate training have been performing life-threatening operations usurping the skills of consultant plastic surgeons.
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Once here he will have an operation to repair a cleft palate by plastic surgeon Charles Viva.
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Did you hear about the plastic surgeon warming himself by the fire?
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It may be necessary to get reports from an orthopaedic surgeon , a neurologist and perhaps a plastic surgeon.
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He said plastic surgeons were working close with the surgery team.
surgery
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She's had so much plastic surgery done, it's not like she's herself any more.
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They've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury.
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Doctors hope Christina's face will heal quickly and that she will be able to avoid plastic surgery .
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Instead, 20-year-old Alison was transferred by ambulance to a specialist plastic surgery unit 60 miles away.
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He became one of the first to benefit from the plastic surgery techniques pioneered by Sir Archibald McIndoe.
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One of my men had to have plastic surgery after that little lark.
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He was later transferred to St John's hospital in Livingston where he underwent plastic surgery .
tube
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He slipped out of the pony harness, withdrew the slim plastic tube and emptied the sticky gerbils back into their cage.
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The distal end of the intestinal segment was connected via a plastic tube to a basin on the plate.
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A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.
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Firstly, we have to realise the full potential for growth and profitability of our plastic tube technology.
■ VERB
carry
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Duvall was carrying two plastic containers.
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Smitty was carrying the plastic can up the side of a rock where wildflowers grew.
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I see Harry sauntering through the gates wearing a warm coat and carrying a plastic bag.
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Gionesca wore a bedsheet and a necklace of rabbit-bones, and led four pall-bearers carrying a plastic carton containing a Marlboro butt.
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They carried a long plastic body-bag into the building.
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It's easy to be tidy, just carry a plastic sheet or bag upon which your excavated earth is placed.
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I had no sleeping bag but always carry an orange plastic survival bag in the rucksack.
contain
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A plastic bag containing some of his remains was found two weeks later at Reigate.
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Behind her and to the right stretched a plastic canopy containing cakes and filled rolls.
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Gionesca wore a bedsheet and a necklace of rabbit-bones, and led four pall-bearers carrying a plastic carton containing a Marlboro butt.
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The waiter smacked a plastic plate containing the bill on to the corner of the table and glared at them.
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It consists of a plastic 3*3 square containing eight little tiles and one empty space.
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A long plastic tube containing a tasty morsel of food in the middle was placed in their cage.
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He is skinnier than ever before and the owner of several plastic bags each containing a forgotten toothbrush.
fill
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Then after filling a plastic bag she popped the lot in the bin.
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Holly had filled the plastic bag with oil and twisted the neck tight and fastened it with a snip of wire.
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Eight big plastic dustbins were filled with clear plastic bags and flown to London.
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Give him a plastic or wooden spoon and plug your ears! Fill an empty plastic bottle with a few lentils.
hold
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Florence re-emerged holding a plastic raincoat over herself and the baby, and got into the back seat.
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The cans are held together by plastic , and you can see the red and white labels.
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The best way to train for this is to have your partner hold a plastic foam impact pad against his chest.
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She was holding a plastic bag of ice cubes on top of her head.
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He is holding the plastic tub out to Keith.
make
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There are grants for developing industrial crops to generate energy, make plastics and grow hemp for manufacturing.
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Why not make cars or plastics this way?
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You can't make spaceships out of plastic !
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It smashed through the gates, tearing them off their hinges as though they were made of plastic .
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These are made from a tough plastic foam and are very light to wear.
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The buildings were made of plastic and glass on a plexiglass base, detailed at the front but merely silhouettes further back.
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Collecting and cleaning some types of plastic for recycling uses more energy than making new plastic.
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As mentioned in the introduction, the LEGATO.INI that you see here is one I made earlier from sticky-backed plastic .
put
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I hang my clothes in the wardrobe and put on the plastic gown.
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She put a red plastic bowl on the refrigerator floor and sat down to wait for the ice to melt.
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He puts his green plastic briefcase on the desk.
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All the same, she put a little more plastic holly in the shop-window.
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Never block ventilation bricks. Put metal or plastic around the sides of doors.
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They made him strip, put a plastic bag over his head and then poured petrol over him.
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Newspapers are tied up in bundles, or put into plastic bags.
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Unrecycleable material is put into either plastic or brown paper rubbish bags.
use
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So the detergent companies have been careful to use lots of recycled plastic in their containers.
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Oceangoers compare the diversity of techniques used in fishing plastic to that of fly fishing.
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Endoprosthesis placement was performed in the conventional manner using a plastic prosthesis for the bile and pancreatic ducts.
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Are you addicted to the joy of using plastic ?
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I now use a small plastic bucket to keep the worms and feed them on bread and milk.
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Jim Thorpe: using plastic kiddies' clubs.
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Left: The Diamond kite, using decoration from a plastic carrier bag.
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And as they use more plastic , chemicals and metals, so what they discard becomes increasingly durable and potentially poisonous.
wrap
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Carry your spares in their original bubble pack or, if loose, wrap each battery in plastic .
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She wrapped the blazing plastic in a cloth and drove away to pass the sweltering hours until she could visit again.
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If a toy is wrapped in a plastic bag make sure that you keep the bag out of the reach of children.
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Rindless cheeses are produced by wrapping cheeses in plastic .
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They take tissue from an animal and wrap it in plastic before transplanting it.
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Another tip for a different effect is to wrap a plastic bag around the roller with a rubber band.
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There's something inside, wrapped up in a plastic bag.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
metal-coated/plastic-coated etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I didn't have the cash for a trip home, so I paid with plastic .
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The company experimented with various plastics but found that aluminum was still the best option.
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The doors are made of plastic so they don't dent.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Not a piece of sticky-back plastic , a toilet roll or a Blue Peter badge in sight!
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Some industries, for example plastics, will evidently not be greatly affected.
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You have the following equipment: a large piece of plastic , rope, and an air tank.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bag
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Punctured plastic bags blow across the adjacent plots of waste land.
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Each plastic bag and drainage tile dropped in the coffin makes the world just that much more beautiful.
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But not the man with the plastic bag .
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Wash them before packing into plastic bags or containers.
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All radiocarbon samples should be sealed within a clean container such as a plastic bag at the time of recovery.
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It was supplied in plastic bags , carefully wrapped up and tied at the neck with string.
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A body wrapped in a plastic bag is loaded on to a lorry and taken off to the morgue.
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They pushed a plastic bag over his head and almost suffocated him.
bottle
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All you need is a light and a few empty plastic bottles .
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That move is aimed at meeting global demand for plastic bottles .
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Keep refrigerated in small plastic bottles until a demonstration.
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The teacher from Boston told me that this plastic bottle was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.
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Using tyre tubes and air-filled plastic bottles as life-jackets, they stayed within sight of land and took turns rowing.
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She set out through the brush with the empty plastic bottles .
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Alternatively, you can make your own by filling two plastic bottles with water or sand or use cans of beans.
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The market for providing clear plastic bottles is open in Minnesota, he said.
box
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But there is also something worrying about a plastic box outwitting humans at this most cerebral of pastimes.
chair
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Archie ignored the bell and continued talking but everyone stopped listening and started worming their way free of the hard plastic chairs .
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There is a woman with blowsy yellow hair pushing along an orange plastic chair as she mutters obscenities to herself.
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I watched them watching, my thighs getting sweaty on the plastic chair to which the secretary had consigned me.
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There is a man sitting on a plastic chair tied in restraints, rocking back and forth.
container
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Near these were assorted plastic containers .
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Mattie grunted abstractedly, totally engrossed in peering at the various plastic containers and bowls in the refrigerator.
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The dishwasher was filled with plastic containers from Boston Market, but still the pantry was empty.
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SchultzeAllen markets a kind of worm condo, a multilevel plastic container system about the size of a backyard grill.
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The socks are the latest item to be made from eco-friendly EcoSpun, a material made from recycled plastic containers .
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Aseptic boxes of fruit juices or plastic containers of prepared beverages can be frozen to serve double duty in the cooler.
cup
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People emerge from the casinos with beers in one hand and plastic cups full of change in the other.
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He brought out the bottle and the plastic cups .
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Douglas kept plastic cups to drink from.
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Give each group a plastic cup with a small amount of the cabbage water in it.
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With each lunge his jaw shot past a plastic cup of coffee which was on the desk.
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I sipped my plastic cup of reconstituted orange juice and took a bite of my over-buttered pumpernickel bagel, smearing my hands.
explosive
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Semtex is not the only plastic explosive .
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Some machines sniff out plastic explosives .
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As passed by the House and agreed to by the Senate, the bill allowed only plastic explosives to be tagged.
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Inside he found what he took to be plastic explosive , wrapped in cellophane, with a wire protruding from it.
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Instructions on how to make plastic explosives are on the Internet and in anti-government underground literature.
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Then, we would line the bottom with plastic explosive , about 2 pounds or better.
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In 1991, 40 nations gathered in Montreal to develop a plan for better controls and detection of plastic explosives .
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As the investigation into these bombings continues, it has reinvigorated efforts to learn more about the black market for plastic explosives .
sack
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On Polly's other chair was a big plastic sack of fertilizer.
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Most plastic sacks contain only 5 percent recycled content.
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Another reason is, plastic sacks are commonly contaminated by trash, such as paper and metal cans stuck inside.
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A plastic sack costs less than 2 cents.
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If everyone used plastic sacks , that would save Randalls about $ 3 million a year.
sheet
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Within moments a plastic sheet had been placed on the floor and a mountain of food was brought in.
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Workers held up plastic sheets so that bystanders and news cameras had no view.
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At the end of last week 116 had returned for classes on plastic sheets strewn with leaves.
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These minute air pockets within the plastic sheet act as mirrors and reflect light.
surgeon
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He said the plastic surgeon drank vodka and sniffed cocaine during the operation, and the result was a ghastly mask.
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A plastic surgeon said no decision would be made on whether they needed reconstructive surgery until their wounds healed.
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Conley markets the nip-and-tuck package by going directly to about 35 San Franciscan plastic surgeons .
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But the big scene happens at a cocktail party in the home of a famous plastic surgeon .
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The plastic surgeon to the stars...
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Now, board-certified plastic surgeons appear on your television screen to sell you a new face.
surgery
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One way of exorcizing such fear and longing is to submit to the ghastly ritual of plastic surgery .
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HOUSTONRight before Geni Hefner had plastic surgery to repair her battered face, she sat in her apartment and recalled the horror.
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Later, police rushed the damaged nose part to hospital where it was sewn back on by delicate plastic surgery .
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Carrillo died last July 4 from complications following extensive plastic surgery and liposuction.
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Medical care at the hospital was soon expanded to include rehabilitation and plastic surgery .
wrap
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Flatten slightly into disk and wrap in plastic wrap.
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Put them on a plate, cover lightly with plastic wrap , and refrigerate.
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Cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
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The price is right and the laundry comes returned to you in an vacuum-tight plastic wrap .
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Press mixture down hard and wrap in plastic wrap.
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Return to a clean bowl and cover with damp towel or plastic wrap , or put the bowl inside a plastic bag.
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Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rise in a warm place until it has doubled in bulk.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A clear plastic tarp flapped and ballooned in the breeze.
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But not the man with the plastic bag.
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By mid-century, Californians Charles and Ray Eames had molded their plastic chaise for a 1948 museum competition.
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I tried to find the plastic value of these fragments of our modern life.
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People emerge from the casinos with beers in one hand and plastic cups full of change in the other.
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She just let her feet get wet in their sensible plastic sandals.
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The murder weapon, a Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, was left at the scene in a plastic bag.
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They closed a few plants and decided to use the idle machinery to make plastic chips for cigarette filters.