noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pig/sheep/cattle farm
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A pig farm in Dorset is the suspected source of the epidemic.
bighorn sheep
black sheep
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Amy’s always been the black sheep of the family .
sheep dip
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sheep dip
sheep/dairy/livestock etc farming
the black sheep of the family
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Amy’s always been the black sheep of the family .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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I wanted to be the black sheep .
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Me, an old bag of black sheep .
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Then I became the black sheep and I found to my horror that everyone thought I was off my bloody head.
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Families who want to eliminate a black sheep from their photo albums now have a place to go.
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Faith is treated as the odd man out, the misfit, the black sheep .
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Even in this questionable industry, meanwhile, the Connecticut leasing operation is clearly the black sheep .
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Nomatterwhere you are, there are always a few black sheep .
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Are twins to become the moral equivalent of black sheep ?
dead
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Relentlessly, the amazing force of the tide rolled and twisted his body along like a dead sheep .
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Judy Boone arrived home to find 28 dead sheep pressed against her fence.
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In fact it was still alive and had to be destroyed. Dead sheep and lambs were found in farm machinery.
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Several of the dead sheep were carried off to the state capital of Villahermosa 30 miles away for examination.
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It was a dead sheep , caught on the buttress of the bridge, and its dark-swollen face was fish-nibbled.
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The local veterinarian who examined two of the dead sheep says a coyote never kills the way these sheep were killed.
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Heather played the pacifist role, pointing out that despite all the litter and dead sheep it was quite a nice campsite.
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These dead sheep had only puncture wounds.
■ NOUN
bighorn
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Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep .
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Four Peaks is home to black bear, deer, javelina, bighorn sheep , mountain lions and other animals.
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Below right A male bighorn sheep with a particularly fine set of horns.
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Desert bighorn sheep are found mainly in rugged country.
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A male bighorn sheep curls back his upper lip in an attempt to determine the reproductive state of a female close by.
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The area is also home to 80 bighorn sheep .
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The bighorn sheep , very good to eat, was a logical source of provender in the hill country.
dip
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That sheep dip is singularly disagreeable to a golden eagle is one reason for its rarity.
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Perhaps an agricultural supplier was giving them away free with every 200 gallons of sheep dip .
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The Fawcetts had a sheep dip and we would take ours there, but the shearing was quite a problem for me.
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Symptoms of poisoning by the chemical, which is used in sheep dip , include nausea, headaches and muscle spasms.
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An old paint tin, a burst packet of sheep dip .
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Mobile sheep dip eases chemical disposal problems.
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Previous errors have included a sheep dip targeted after it was mistaken for a surface-to-air missile launch site.
farm
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Tests began at the sheep farm 48 hours ago.
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Outside of Tashkent, where Chusovitina grew up, there were sheep farms and ranches.
farmer
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His support of the official scientific view that eagles are no threat to the sheep farmer is also worth having.
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Like all sheep farmers , Peter Capener in Staffordshire faced this situation ... until he installed two 3W infra-red heaters.
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Read in studio A sheep farmer is rearing his biggest ever lamb ... a giant youngster twice the normal weight at birth.
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Brussels brings cold comfort to sheep farmers .
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Individual identification is out, sheep farmers will be relieved to hear.
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She had previously been a pharmacist, a sheep farmer and a student of ecology.
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A sheep farmer produces raw wool and sells it to a mill for £10.
farming
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The former manor spread over several parishes, with a particular emphasis on sheep farming backed up by a large wheat crop.
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Later he started sheep farming , employing a few of his old workers.
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The traditional agricultural land use in the Pentland Hills is sheep farming , mainly of pure bred Blackface flocks.
flock
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The sheep flocks were to have their restrictions lifted immediately.
■ VERB
drive
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His job was to drive some 50-100 sheep around to crop the fairways and rough and then return them back to Hunts.
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Maybe farmers had once driven their sheep up here for the summer grasses.
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Sheepdogs are also particularly alert to stray sheep and can easily be taught to drive stray sheep back to the shepherd.
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Well I mind the time - I was young then of course - when we'd drive the sheep from Beckwith to Shepton.
feed
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Any unsold can be fed to cattle or sheep .
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Alternatively they can be lifted and clamped up to mid-December, and fed to cattle and sheep until the end of February.
graze
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Where the reclaimed tips are not grazed by sheep , plants enter readily.
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The field where the outbreak has originated may be grazed by sheep or rested until the following June.
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Farmers can use it only to graze sheep , in flocks of 200 or so ewes with their lambs in spring.
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Many parks were deer parks, others were grazed by cattle, sheep and horses.
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Tam was on all fours, a wood chisel in his hand, apparently sneaking up on a grazing sheep .
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Following treatment, lambs should be moved to pasture not grazed by sheep that year, otherwise they will immediately become reinfected.
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This part of the Long Mynd, heavily grazed by sheep until recently, is now devoid of them.
keep
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Good in the hedges, too, for keeping cattle and sheep out of planted places.
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When John Ainsworth died in 1992, Zona Ainsworth decided to keep the sheep .
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Felt was an almost inevitable consequence of keeping woolly sheep .
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It meant people who kept sheep were happy.
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Most of it they have left as moorland on which they keep sheep .
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The farmers keep sheep on the open moorlands.
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Oliffe has already admitted keeping 300 sheep in pens surrounded by broken bottles and barbed wire in Gloucester.
kill
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If they kill the sheep you know what they do to the wolf.
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Stop them from killing the sheep .
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The local veterinarian who examined two of the dead sheep says a coyote never kills the way these sheep were killed.
sell
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I was to learn that one of my air gunners had sold the sheep , and he seemed to go into hiding.
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He had sold all his sheep and bought a truck, and was trying to convince others that they should follow suit.
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He saw in to the future and sold his camels and sheep and bought this land.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I/you might as well be hanged for a sheep as (for) a lamb
a wolf in sheep's clothing
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If ever there was a wolf in sheep's clothing this Bill is it.
count sheep
head of cattle/sheep etc
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During the 1880s the Scandinavian countries sent an average 106,244 head of cattle to Britain every year.
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He now clears just what he needs to support crops and a few head of cattle.
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Of the nearly 18,000 head of cattle imported through Colombo in 1901, over sixty percent were immediately sent to the slaughterhouse.
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The tribe typically runs about 17, 000 head of cattle on its ranges, but the numbers are dwindling.
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Three raids alone in 1736 led to the loss of 1,026 head of cattle.
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We met one nomad driving 40 head of cattle in the baking sun, hours from the nearest village.
mob of sheep/cattle
separate the sheep from the goats
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sheep ranch
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He and a Boston friend bought a ranch in Laramie and raised sheep , then steer, on the open range.
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He says that if you hold the sheep properly, it won't struggle.
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Her father left things with her for mending, like a sheep leaves its wool on a fence, in passing.
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The 17, 248 sheep in attendance never got things to eardrum-shattering decibels, which was both unusual and a relief.
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The real problem, they say, is overgrazing by the sheep .
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When we stepped on board we found the boat largely occupied by sheep , always very smelly companions in a steamer.