I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a water/soil etc sample
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They analysed soil samples collected from streams.
dirty/soiled
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Where shall I put the dirty nappy?
loose soil/earth
soil erosion
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Soil erosion is worse in areas where trees have been cut down.
soil type (= for example, sandy soil or clay soil )
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The plant thrives in a wide range of soil types.
till the soil/land/fields etc
waterlogged ground/soil
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Heavy rain meant the pitch was waterlogged.
well-drained/poorly-drained soil (= soil from which water flows away quickly or slowly )
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This plant needs rich, well-drained soil.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dry
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All it had was dry soil and impoverished villages.
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The two together make poor, dry soil more moisture-retentive, and improve the drainage in heavy soils.
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Ideally, the site should consist of well drained, dry , granular soil .
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Now the areas of sands and gravels have dry soils with few chemicals for crops.
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Acid grasslands on dry or well-drained soils are relatively scarce.
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The funnel-shaped pits are constructed in dry soil or sand using a novel excavation technique.
fertile
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This new and fertile soil rapidly developed her character and painting style.
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These tender plants like a moist, well-draining and fertile soil .
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Quince C Semi-dwarfing, used for strong-growing types, needs fertile soil .
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It appreciates an acidic, fertile soil that drains well.
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Agriculture flourished on the fertile soils of Kosovo and Metohija.
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Sun or partial sun is fine, as is a fertile , well-draining soil .
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Once you get a fertile soil , the bully boys tend to take over and only about half a dozen plants flourish.
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This plant likes sun and water as well as a fertile , well-draining soil .
foreign
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He wanted no part of foreign soils .
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Will your grandchildren forgive us, Erich, if we surrender our armies on foreign soil without a fight?
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He was not a man to show public affection on foreign soil .
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They disembarked at Calais but under the bright lights of the dockside Stephen had no sense of foreign soil .
good
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Wheat out-produces rye on good soils , and has a high market value for bread, pastry and pasta.
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Also, you could then irrigate the lower valley lands, which usually have better soil and a longer growing season.
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Needs good soil and permanent staking.
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Other considerations for siting Neolithic settlements included good water and soil , and convenient pasture land for newly domesticated animals.
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Pixy Dwarf, good for heavy soils .
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There is good soil , good rain.
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Inmil Dwarf, needs good soil and permanent stakes.
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Use a good potting soil that is high in organic material.
heavy
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At ground level, bergenias, hellebores and, of course, snowdrops all love heavy soil .
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It requires little care beyond placing out of heavy damp soil and makes an outstanding accent to the rock garden.
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Spring can return with tulips, most of which enjoy a well drained, heavy soil .
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Avoid spots with heavy clay soil .
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Straw from the previous wheat crop was chopped and spread before the heavy soil was deep cultivated.
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Pixy Dwarf, good for heavy soils .
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Naked wheats are free-threshing and, unlike the hulled varieties preferred earlier, grow best on heavy soils .
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Plants tend to grow big and lush on heavy soils , a feature worth enhancing by going for vigorous species.
light
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Early potatoes grow well on light sandy soils which warm quickly in the spring.
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These plants share an enjoyment of light , well-nourished soil and a sunny position.
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Black cattle, when they were used at all, ploughed light sandy soil .
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The lighter the soil the fewer water-furrows were needed and, therefore, the wider were the stetches.
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It is a fairly sparse forest mostly of birch trees on a light , sandy soil .
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They are the ever present generally light soils that occur everywhere in manufacturing, catering and retailing.
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The bank on each side of the oak tree was bare and consisted of a light , gravelly soil .
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A light covering of soil must be given and the pans watered with a fine rose attachment.
loose
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It hadn't lain loose in the soil for centuries, or even for weeks.
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Magnolias fare best in acidic, loose soil .
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The animal was attracted by the smell of the explosive and pawed at loose soil beneath a tree.
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Struggling out much later from the weight of corpses, crawling out of the loose soil .
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The solid rocks have been weathered to form loose soil .
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You should never wash roots before storing, but always gently rub off any loose soil .
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Clear off all loose top soil within an area slightly larger than the size of the workshop.
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Remove any heavy loose soil by scraping.
moist
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They should be planted in moist soil that is high in organic content for best results.
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In general, ferns like organically enriched, moist but well-draining soil on the acid side.
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What it does require, however, is a moist soil rather than one that is very dry.
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The fungus grows best on the surface of moist soils , containing bird and bat droppings.
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A Astilbes are hardy herbaceous perennials which prefer a deep, moist , loamy soil .
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They do best in moist but well-drained soil .
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Prefers rich, moist but well-drained soil .
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A rich, moist soil and an open situation he considered ideal for producing the best blooms.
native
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The deeply symbolic ritual act of treading the earth affirms the relationship of human beings to their native soil .
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State historian and native soil Charles Morrissey has observed that a sadness has always pervaded Vermont.
poor
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Specific handicaps refer to natural conditions unfavourable for agricultural production, e.g. poor soil , poor drainage or excessive salinity.
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It is well suited to poor soil and ideal if you want to plant a traditional orchard.
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Plums, peaches, nectarines St Julian A Fairly vigorous, best for large gardens or poor soils .
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Oats grow best in the wetter, cooler parts of the country and are much more tolerant of poor , acid soils .
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The two together make poor , dry soil more moisture-retentive, and improve the drainage in heavy soils.
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Yet it was clear that intensive farming was not possible on the poor Pomeranian soil .
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Beans and corn sprout from these nutrient-\#poor soils .
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Rye is very tolerant of poor , acid soils , is extremely frost-hardy and ripens much earlier than other cereals.
rich
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Give it a rich soil in full sun and it will pay for its keep a thousandfold.
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Cabbages should be grown in a rich , loamy soil that is not too acid.
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Acidification is less of a problem on the richer lowland soils because rainwater acids are quickly neutralized.
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A customary error committed by aquarists is to cling to the opinion that the Aponogeton species do not require a rich soil .
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The peat and silt are rich soils on which farmers obtain high yields without using as much expensive artificial fertiliser as elsewhere.
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Prefers rich well-drained soil in the sun.
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Acorus should be planted in rich soil .
sandy
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Early potatoes grow well on light sandy soils which warm quickly in the spring.
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We drove through it, got out, and walked in the sandy soil .
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Once he saw a glade, a secret place with a floor of pale, sandy soil .
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She crawled on the ground in agony, fingers digging into the sandy soil like steel claws.
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Recent bootprints were marked in the thin coating of green sandy soil that had been blown by gentle breezes over the buildings.
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I dig my heels into the sandy soil of the path.
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Anchorage is lower in friable or sandy soils and following rain.
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A constant water supply can not be guaranteed in sandy or rocky soils in a low-rainfall area.
thin
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The thin soil that covers the forest floor is easily washed away.
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On the contrary, they first cultivated the thin but unencumbered soil on top of the hills.
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As the population expanded, the forest was increasingly depleted, and its thin soils were worked to exhaustion.
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But these are thin soils with an uncertain water supply; not naturally the best land for arable cash crops or cattle.
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You can speed things along by spreading a thin layer of soil and compost over bare areas and planting more grass plugs.
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On the top of the pavement a thin soil may develop and thyme and rock roses are able to grow.
■ NOUN
clay
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These giant worms live in clay soils close to watercourses in the Bass River valley, southeast of Melbourne.
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I would dig the grave myself, six feet down into the dense clay soil .
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But if you have a heavy clay soil , wait for warmer weather.
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Avoid spots with heavy clay soil .
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To draw a heavy plough through wet clay soil , a pair of oxen, yoked together was used.
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Clay Soils Clay soils undergo a considerable change in volume.
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All morning, as we negotiated puddles in the wet clay soil , we were to hear the lovely sound.
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The Brigadier and the Captain sank their cavalry boots deep into the clay soil and began looking about.
conservation
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Some land reforms have embraced soil conservation as a sine qua non of long term productivity gains by land reform beneficiaries.
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At the same time, the effectiveness of soil conservation measures is apparent.
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This last point is one which is developed here in relation to soil conservation .
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In the absence of soil conservation , the productivity of these lands w ill inevitably decline rapidly.
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Examples of technical failures of mechanical means of soil conservation have already been given in Chapter 5.
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However, more evidence is needed about soil conservation programmes themselves.
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Both family planning and soil conservation are activities which governments attempt to get people to undertake.
erosion
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Although the increase in rainfall would aid irrigation, it would add to the problems of soil erosion and nutrient leaching.
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In 1983 Lewes District Council spent £12,000 to alleviate the effects of soil erosion on a housing estate.
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There are problems related to the complex and varying manner in which symptoms of soil erosion appear through time.
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We infer that they accumulated during periods of accelerated soil erosion .
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In addition, the scale of measurement over which soil erosion occurs affects the measurement itself.
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The question arises as to why there is so little official action to combat soil erosion .
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Pollution, mining, uncontrolled tourism and soil erosion caused by logging are to blame.
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Constructing rows of turbines in strategic areas could reduce soil erosion and help to phase out the use of wood for fuel.
fertility
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The non-burrowing earthworms play a different role in soil fertility .
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A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility .
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Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are banned and soil fertility and pest control is achieved through crop rotation and mixed farming systems.
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As well as contributing to declining soil fertility , such high sediment removal are causing problems with water supply by increasing reservoir siltation rates.
loss
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First, there are few resources in developing countries to measure soil loss .
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Such studies may yield exaggerated estimates of total soil loss .
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The central issue here is the assumptions about future agricultural technology which are made when assessing tolerable soil losses .
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Thus we do not intend to provide evidence here of frightening rates of soil loss and desertification throughout the world.
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And again, since no erosion research data were collected, their effects on soil losses are unknown.
structure
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Good soil structure might have been the key factor here, says Andrew Cottrell of Novartis.
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Conventional physical and chemical methods can leave the soil structure unsuitable for cultivation.
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Controversy has also surrounded the long-term effects of artificial fertilizer on the soil structure .
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Mineralogical analysis and microscopic examination of soil structures is well advanced.
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Being frost-hardy, they a-re often grazed off insitu through the winter, although this can cause damage to the soil structure .
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Plants with a fibrous root system, creating plenty of organic matter, do most to improve the soil structure .
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In addition they help conserve the existing soil structure by protecting the surface from the destructive force of winter rain.
type
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The soil type varied but much of it was peat based.
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Kikuyu farmers had traditionally farmed several plots which were within easy walking distance but had different characteristics of altitude and soil type .
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Anchorage strength is affected by the root plate spread, root depth, and the soil type and structure.
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Matching Materials with Tasks Matching is carried out initially by grouping all the tasks with similarities in soil types and levels.
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Only Leicestershire had the soil type and climate to allow a comfortable change of enterprise.
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Like grapes, the quality and character of the beans is affected by climate and varying soil types in which they grow.
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North and west of Bourg there were larger mixed farms with fairly good soil types .
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The Soil Survey of Great Britain publishes maps and memoirs which provide information on soil types and conditions.
■ VERB
grow
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Rowans will grow in alkaline soils , but prefer heavier acid loams.
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Hazelnuts will grow in ordinary soil and are a joy unless you have squirrels in the neighborhood.
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Naked wheats are free-threshing and, unlike the hulled varieties preferred earlier, grow best on heavy soils .
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Cabbage for fall and winter should be growing briskly in garden soil by the end of September.
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Then it will be possible for crops to grow on soil where, earlier, no plant life could have been supported.
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After all, this was top-quality grass, grown out of top-quality soil .
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A green manure is a crop grown mainly to improve soil fertility.
till
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Aid, given on condition that it is spent on genuine development, can till the soil for home-grown growth.
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Their time is constantly spent in tilling the soil , manuring it with ashes, raking and hoeing it with wooden hoes.
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I used to work for my Uncle Demba cultivating rice, tilling the soil and sowing rice seeds.
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Peasants tilled the soil and herded sheep.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
virgin land/forest/soil/snow etc
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After an initial few hundred feet across virgin land the railway will join the old trackbed of the long-disused Newbury Railway.
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Another road runs south, through the oilfields, and is constantly being extended into virgin forest.
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Cloud shadows scudded across immeasurable stands of virgin forests.
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In low range, it walks with authority across a field covered by a couple of feet of packed virgin snow.
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In response to the beard-shaving incident the Dwarfs chopped down entire virgin forests to spite the Elves.
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Some scientists believe that it can take up to a thousand years for virgin forest to be truly established.
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The trees here were all larger and growing much more vigorously than in the virgin forest above.
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Within an hour, Bucharest is buried under a blanket of virgin snow.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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soil and water pollution
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Most herbs grow well in dry soil .
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Parsley should have a deep, moist, fertile soil for ideal growth.
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Right-wing activists found fertile soil for their anti-immigrant ideas in southeastern regions.
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Roses do best in well-drained, slightly acid soil .
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The island was a jungle of palm trees in a sandy soil .
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The treaty will be signed on US soil .
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This was the first time that the Pope had set foot on Cuban soil .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few infections arise from inanimate sources: for example, pathogens that cause tetanus are harboured in the soil .
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A stable soil soaks up water, and allows acid to break up bedrock and create more soil.
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Other considerations for siting Neolithic settlements included good water and soil , and convenient pasture land for newly domesticated animals.
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Star fruit trees like well-draining, moist and slightly acid soil .
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The limiting factor for early planting is more often waterlogged soil than cold temperatures.
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This can be promoted by burning which removes woody tissue and locally enriches the soil .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hand
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Baldwin soiled his hands a little, but not excessively.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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soiled diapers
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His shirtfront was soiled with blood and his hair was wild.
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Many of the pages had been soiled by the old man's dirty fingers.
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The baby had soiled her diaper again.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fremont Elementary was old and soiled, waiting for terminal erosion like the bits of tire debris that trucks leave on freeways.
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He sometimes gets his shoes soiled in trying to stay out of the muck.
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Is the bark naturally as black as it is now, or has the dirt from the air soiled it?
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The man then soiled his bed. and Butler cleaned and changed him again.
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This would be soiled over to give a better finish than presently shown.
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What good is there in preventing it, in soiling your daughter's reputation when it could remain clear?