adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a southern/northern accent
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He spoke with a lovely soft southern accent.
eastern/southern etc extremity of sth
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the southern extremity of New Zealand
southern hemisphere
Southern Lights
the northern/southern etc boundary (= of an area or city )
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the southern boundary of San Francisco
the northern/southern etc edge (= the part of an area that is close to the point where the area ends )
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There’s a ridge of hills on the northern edge of the county.
the northern/southern half
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The northern half of the city is generally poorer.
the southern/eastern etc border
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They renewed their attacks on Ethiopia’s northern border.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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There was growing concern over an estimated 780,000 people facing starvation in central and southern areas .
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Where in the southern area had there been an enemy powerful enough to require the use of our superior striking power?
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These will be heavy in some western areas at first, then spread to other central and southern areas for a time.
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As the southern areas build out, officials say they need to look at bolstering their fire and police services.
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Some southern areas managed the change to integrated schools without much difficulty; but many used every possible delaying tactic.
border
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The southern borders of the little Papal State now touched on the lands of the same family.
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With a peaceful and stable southern border , Begin felt free to concentrate on his northern front.
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What Buchanan is saying is that people who cross the southern border are enemies.
boundary
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In total some 4,200 metres of 33,000 volt and 11,000 volt power lines were re-routed along the southern boundary of the bypass.
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As an additional consequence, fugitive slaves would be free as soon as they crossed the southern boundary of the North.
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For non-mountaineers, the great feature of Knoydart is Loch Nevis, forming its southern boundary .
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Another, presumably later, inhumation cemetery lay in and around the southern boundary ditch at its Ryknild Street end.
city
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Knoxville, rare for a southern city in that it is mountainous, had few plantations and not much need for slaves.
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The eight were subsequently suspended from their duties and forbidden to leave the southern city of Sucre, the legal capital.
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Baltimore was more of a southern city than anything I had previously experienced.
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Finally the revolution in retailing that was embodied in Wal-Mart was invented in the suburbs of southern cities in the United States.
coast
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Nicephorus' fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution, but made no firm gains.
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The docks were built where the deep water channel of the Humber touches the southern coast .
edge
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From the southern edge of this inland sea, it is only a short haul over the mountains to Los Angeles.
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It sat at the southern edge of San Salvador on land that had once held a garbage dump.
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In 1754, further burials were discovered during the rebuilding of Kate's Cabin at the southern edge of the extra-mural area.
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As we rounded the lake's southern edge and moved up to the eastern shore, a faint tinkle filled the air.
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The Lights of Lisbon at the southern edge of the Alfama district was one of his favourite places.
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Eight miles North-west from Oxford on the southern edge of the Cotswolds is Woodstock.
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After this, the path follows the southern edge of the estuary.
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And even from the mainland there appeared to be a distinctly vertiginous southern edge to the island.
end
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At the present time most of the alterations affecting the spit are confined to the southern end , where it is weakest.
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At the same time, the southern end of the court opens to the valley, giving a view of soft hills.
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Then catch the 79 Seatoller service from Keswick to take you to the southern end of Derwentwater.
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Baja California Sur, whose southern end includes the booming Los Cabos resort, was granted statehood in 1971.
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Two months ago rains flooded the Incomati river and laid waste to part of the southern end of the town.
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There are some places to know about between Oloron and the Col du Somport, at the valley's southern end .
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Later, as bronze was replaced by iron, the Golasecca culture arose at the southern end of Lake Maggiore.
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Tilly Whim was at the southern end .
half
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The first section to be built was the southern half .
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Within months, land prices in the southern half of the county tripled.
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The United States has 37,000 troops based in the southern half of the divided peninsula.
hemisphere
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In the southern hemisphere , however, few cemeteries can match La Recoleta in Buenos Aires.
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Had explorers come from the southern hemisphere , would maps appear upside down?
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Other diving birds, including ocean-going penguin species in the southern hemisphere , can also sit out storms.
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Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.
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In the southern hemisphere shadows travel anti-clockwise, at least as we see it.
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Those that evolved in the southern hemisphere , the marsupials, start to do this when their babies are very young indeed.
part
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The southern part is the best.
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What main differences are there between the northern and southern parts ?
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Much confusion exists because quail are called partridge in the southern part of the United States.
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Optimism remains relatively higher in the North than in the southern part of the country.
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Hart has attracted some sharp criticism, especially from Otago and southern parts of the South Island.
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Macau hopes to become the service hub for the southern part of the Pearl River Delta.
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Mild and windy in the North, and feeling less cold in southern parts .
province
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Lemba is in the southern province of Katanga.
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The blast last week in remote Fanglin village, deep in the southern province of Jiangxi, was massive.
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Mujaheddin forces also attacked Qalat, the capital of the southern province of Zabul.
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The absence of reference to a division of the southern province , therefore, is not altogether surprising.
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Kabila, from the secessionist southern province of Katanga, studied in Paris and Belgrade before returning home in 1963.
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Why had he been so determined to create a second see of archiepiscopal rank in the southern province in the first place?
shore
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About 10 million years before that, another rift began along what is now the southern shore of the Arabian peninsula.
side
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Go east along the valley on the track around the southern side of Little Langdale Tarn.
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Compared with the heavily manned southern side , we saw remarkably few troops.
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Half an hour later he was crossing the footbridge from the northern to the southern side of the lines.
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She determined to avoid Bartholomew Close, so circled the block on the southern side .
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On the southern side , new horse-drawn lorries and vans were manufactured, the chargehand being C. Stapleton.
state
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But in the southern state of Kerala, where literacy exceeds 90%, the population growth is only 1.2% a year.
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The southern state of Bavaria requires all applicants for civil-service jobs to reveal whether they are Scientologists.
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By 1988, 2,908 blacks were elected to public office in the southern states .
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In the southern state of Tabasco, farmers blockaded 60 oil wells in February to demand compensation from Pemex.
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The southern state , São Paulo, was developed by the coffee boom of the late nineteenth century.
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Even after southern states returned to the Union, the military was still required to keep order.
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The southern states were dominated by racist politicians.
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Most of the recent party-switchers have come from southern states , where political realignment in the post-Reagan era has been most dramatic.
suburb
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Pierry Pierry, once a separate village, is now a continuation of the southern suburbs of Épernay.
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Praha Metro is also planning a fourth route linking the city centre and the southern suburbs .
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For the time being we reside with her parents in their small but practical house in the southern suburbs of Berlin.
tip
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Nature was given its due, but only at the southern tip of the marsh.
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It was hazy; they reached the southern tip of Nova Scotia.
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Pirates in fast boats have tried to board ships off Bab el-Mandeb in the Red Sea's southern tip .
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The boat floated off the southern tip of Manhattan.
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Westwards, the road follows a tortuous route towards Capo Spartivento on the southern tip of the island.
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The southern tip is designated as a national nature reserve.
town
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Similar protests took place in the southern town of Lund.
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Every small southern town seemed to have a Dew Drop bar or cafe.
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Lars Andreasson in the southern town of Vaxjo is offering to accept Telia shares in part exchange for his goods.
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Born dirt-poor in a southern town to religious fanatics, he was raised on the Bible and the taunts of others.
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On 8 May, yet another prestige modern building to display contemporary art opens, in the southern town of Nîmes.
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One Stasi officer shot himself in front of intruders in the southern town of Suhl.
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World Food Program in the southern town of Qabodian.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Southern Lights
the southern hemisphere
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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southern Mexico
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Five lived in the southern sector of the city.
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It was southern secession that precipitated emancipation and an end to federal support of slavery.
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It was April, and already the heavy southern sun dominated the sky.
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Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.
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Since the election, a series of demonstrations had taken place in the southern port city of Masan, an anti-Rhee stronghold.
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The southern authority area is dominated by a heavily populated conurbation.
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The rivers of the southern plains are dry much of their length, much of the year.