noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an oil refinery (= a place where oil is treated by an industrial process )
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an oil refinery in Perth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
oil
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The Amerada Hess Corporation oil refinery , with a capacity of 545,000 barrels per day, was also severely damaged.
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The new facility abuts tract homes and a defunct oil refinery .
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Some years before lie had resigned from the forces for their sakes and was personnel manager of an oil refinery in Perth.
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Her father was an oil refinery worker until she was nine.
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When oil was first imported this was the place chosen for an oil refinery .
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The plant will produce electrical power from oil refinery residues.
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Like many other West Lothian settlements, the village grew around a shale oil refinery .
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Why do you think some people opposed the building of oil refineries near Milford Haven?
sugar
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Where are the main sugar refineries and why are they in these places?
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I travelled five miles of busy docks on the Overhead Railway, passed flour mills and sugar refineries and massive bonded warehouses.
■ VERB
build
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But Doumer built a refinery in Saigon, where a blend was concocted that burned quickly, and thus encouraged consumption.
sell
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S., Exxon, Mobil and Chevron, all have sold or closed refineries in the past couple of years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an oil refinery
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Baldwin Inc. last month fired 200 workers at its Crockett, California, refinery , citing high raw cane sugar prices.
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I was the lowest paid person on the refinery .
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Lagoven said its heating oil is mostly derived from its refinery at Amuay in the western state of Falcon.
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Near Irvine and the port of Ardrossan, on the west coast, there is another large oil refinery .
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Pan music, the latent harmony in metal, resurrected from debris on the wharves and refineries of Trinidad by illiterate laborers.
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Quickly he generated an international order book, building refineries and tanks all over the world.
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The company also plans to invest in some of its remaining 11 refineries to make them more efficient.
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Two years before the refinery became operational, however, Montevideo severed all links with Moscow.