noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
plastic
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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.
polythene
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Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found.
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An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting .
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Place the sections end to end, on fine grade polythene sheeting , then roll up to form a tube.
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Fill in any voids as you progress 9 cover the concrete with either polythene sheeting or wet sacking while it cures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The roof was covered in plastic sheeting .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also widely grown are tomatoes and strawberries, nowadays mainly under plastic sheeting .
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An increasing proportion of the early potato crop is grown under polythene sheeting .
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Gedanken suddenly remembered the roll of rubber sheeting - the one she had seen in the corner of the laboratory.
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It is understood to have started when tarpaulin sheeting blew on to heaters drying a new resin coating on repair work.
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It was comfortable, but covered with thin rubber sheeting , as was all the soft furnishing.
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One efficient method of covering the roof is to combine twin wall Lexon Thermoclear sheeting with Twinfix aluminium structural glazing bar.
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Piece of blue polythene sheeting used to carry coals also discovered close to scene of fire where human remains found.
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To save draining the cistern, make a bung from polyethylene sheeting and cloth and hold it against the outlet.