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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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huge
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The huge reservoir so created stretched many miles upstream.
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Osaka has already set the example, to provide space for the heavy industries attracted there by the huge reservoir of labour.
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To the north and east were storehouses; huge , covered reservoirs of grain and rice.
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Eight hundred miles of the Missouri would be transformed into a chain of huge , turbid reservoirs .
ileal
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Methods Twenty three patients who had undergone restorative proctocolectomy with ileal reservoir were included in the study.
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Various microbiological changes have been observed in pelvic ileal reservoirs , although these have not been consistent.
large
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He says that below the Forest of Dean lies one of Britains largest natural reservoirs .
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Another large reservoir of fossil fuels, solid gas hydrates, has recently come to public recognition.
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Indeed the feeder pipe almost certainly extends down to a large magma reservoir well below sea level.
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Lake Rampart would become the largest reservoir in the world.
new
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But the water watchdog Offwat is against costly new reservoirs .
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His head was filled with abandoned canals and new reservoirs .
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And meeting that increase, through new reservoirs and treatment works, is very expensive.
potential
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These effects have created a variety of trap situations in potential Palaeozoic reservoir units.
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The carbonates occur in four separate units and all are known to contain potential reservoir rocks.
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The coals constitute a proven commercial gas source which is in direct contact with the recognised potential reservoirs .
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Nevertheless potential reservoir rocks may occur at these shallower levels.
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rock
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The carbonates occur in four separate units and all are known to contain potential reservoir rocks .
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Nevertheless potential reservoir rocks may occur at these shallower levels.
water
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This will act as a water reservoir to keep the soil from becoming too soggy.
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An aquarium is only a small water reservoir into which only a few plant species can be planted.
■ VERB
build
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We simply could not build , nor afford to build enough reservoirs to replace the aquifers we depend on today.
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But who, Powell asked, was building on-stream reservoirs ?
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The idea of building a reservoir has hovered over Lee Farm, Freckenham for years.
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In 1962, the total amount of federally built reservoir storage in the nation was somewhere around 300 million acre-feet.
provide
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If later generation was significant, the cavernous conditions in parts of the Carboniferous Limestone could provide remarkable reservoirs .
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Diagenetic pyrite in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the Southern Uplands provided a sulphur reservoir .
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The system uses well and log data to provide on-the-spot reservoir analysis, enabling drilling to be adjusted to maximise well productivity.
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Electricity is regenerated by returning the water to a low reservoir through a turbo-generator.
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Every available stretch of water - be it river, sea or reservoir - is likely to harbour a sailing club.
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Improved cleanliness of young children can reduce the nasal and ocular discharges that constitute a major reservoir of infectious material.
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It is only responsible for the reservoir itself and for the sluice gates, says Maxwell.
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Particles of pellets have polluted the tank, the gravel acting as a reservoir of pollution, despite the water changes.
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Salomon Brothers was full of shrewd, knowing people, I said, and we would draw from their reservoir of ideas.
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Secondly, its effect could only be to put the squeeze on landowners who sat in the path of the reservoir .