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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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ancient
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The modern conservation movement began with the schemes to save ancient temples threatened by the Aswan dam.
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I knew that many people were reviving the practice of pilgrimages by traveling to power places and ancient temples in many countries.
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It may be possible to analyse the plans of the other ancient Cretan temples in the same way.
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The romantic backdrop of mist-shrouded mountains and ancient temples in the southeast town of Kyongju only highlighted the strain between the two.
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The cell is said to be the remains of an ancient Carthaginian temple .
buddhist
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The local Buddhist temple donated the land on which the ground is being built.
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In the compound centre stands a model of a Buddhist temple and a prayer bed.
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Six towns, 123 villages, 14 Buddhist temples , more than 20 schools and a prison will go under the water.
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On the night of 30 May 1871 burglars broke into a Buddhist temple in Kagalla district.
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In the gardens of a Buddhist temple somewhere in the Far East sat a contented looking rhesus monkey.
classical
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Lewis has interpreted these as classical temples , but not enough has survived to prove this suggestion.
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In Classical times the temple did not actually cover over the chasm of mists but surrounded it.
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The Planetarium was built in 1929 in the style of a classical temple .
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The dome is supported on four columns which have Ionic capitals taken from a classical temple which earlier stood upon the site.
doric
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This Doric temple was created in the Peloponnese in the middle or later seventh century.
great
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On these rest great palaces, temples and storehouses forming an intricate network of canals.
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It is true we no longer live in the cultures that produced the great temples or stone circles or earthworks.
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In the great temple of Osiris at Abydos the tangible sense of sanctity has often been noted.
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Man builds great temples , the jungle reclaims the land.
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It seemed to him that the spirit of these scriptures was still manifest in the great temples of the South.
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They must build her a great temple near the town and so win back the favor of her heart.
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Even the great temple spa at Bath was suffering decay by the mid fourth century, due to the rising water level.
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The great temple was at Eleusis, a little town near Athens, and the worship was called the Eleusinian Mysteries.
hindu
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Effigy of the Seven-headed Cobra in a Hindu temple .
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Obviously, therefore, untouchables should not enter a Hindu temple .
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One important focal point is their Hindu temple .
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Once a year worshippers gather at Hindu temples to celebrate the birthday of Murugan, son of the goddess Parvathi.
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His fundamentalist outlook led him to destroy Hindu temples across the empire.
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A chemist, estate agent and travel agent in Bradford were attacked with petrol bombs and three Hindu temples set on fire.
pagan
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The first church here is believed to have been built in the fifth-century on the site of a pagan temple to Apollo.
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From 326 onwards pagan temples began to suffer the gradual loss of old endowments.
roman
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Most Roman temples are in the Corinthian order, a few Ionic but rarely Doric.
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Only slowly was the Roman temple form adopted of an entrance façade and a podium base.
small
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The main courtyard is a jumble of shrines and small temples .
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Raju had already gone home, so Koju, Bhairon and I camped by a small white temple .
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It is evident from the Gallic and Rhenish religious sites that some were very large and comprised many shrines and small temples .
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His government argued that the small temples which it had demolished were on land belonging to the state tourist department.
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On the fish pond side, be sure to look for the small Neo-Classical temple , the work of Luigi Cagnola.
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From a single small temple opened in 1976, it now operates in 33 zones.
■ VERB
build
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They built a temple in a side-street to house their Holy Books and to dispense hospitality.
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Man builds great temples , the jungle reclaims the land.
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In this case the coin artist was presumably commemorating the decision to build the temple .
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This collection of materials for the building of the temple thus becomes an acceptable free-will offering because it is acknowledged as gift.
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He builds his own temple and they come from all over the world to hear him speak.
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They must build her a great temple near the town and so win back the favor of her heart.
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The building of temples signifies a religion in which the Gods have begun to separate from the land.
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While the Saints built their first temple , neighbors made life miserable and the Mormons neared bankruptcy.
visit
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Our morning had been devoted to running errands and visiting the obligatory temples .
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We painted by lakes and volcanoes; we watched ceremonies and festivals; we visited artisans and temples .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the temples of the goddesses were destroyed Lilith the Levia an languished forlornly on her ocean bed.
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If this was baseball, the next hitter would have gotten a fastball to the temple .
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Its a native temple of sorts, I suppose, Monsieur Joseph.
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The effort exhausted him although he could not comfortably lie still and his temples tightened.
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There was even revelation in this temple of nature.
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They had been to so many temples and doused themselves with so much holy water, their souls were transparent.
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Top: the International check out a temple .
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Within the solid walls of temple compounds in Kyoto or Nara, Charles began to relax.