COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
on these lines (= this way )
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More groups will now be set up on these lines .
such as this/these
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There is now a greater awareness of problems such as these.
these days (= at the present period )
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Everyone seems to be in a hurry these days .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
along these/those lines
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Democritus drew up a map along these lines .
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Different proposals along these lines have already been introduced by members of Congress from both parties.
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Frankly, I had nothing to share along those lines .
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I was getting a lot of work along these lines in the theater.
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In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
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It would be quite wrong to claim that it gave us orders along those lines .
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Opposition leaders are afraid to give Milosevic the pretext to use more brutality and proclaim martial law or something along those lines .
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The parties have made promises along these lines .
in/round these parts
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But I am known in these parts to be a really good judge of character.
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Colangelo is, as they say with both admiration and bitterness in these parts , large and in charge.
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Distances in these parts are surprisingly tiny.
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It is not done to miss a marriage in these parts .
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Llewelyn's well served in these parts , it seems.
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Their labours will meet reward, for such servants are as gold in these parts .
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There are very few dead nights in clubland round these parts .
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Whatever his inclinations, Larren is some one whose prospects and personal powers make him in these parts a man of capital importance.
these four walls
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I don't want anything that I have said repeated outside these four walls .
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I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls .
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What purpose did she serve sitting looking at these four walls ?
these things happen
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It was a tough loss, but these things happen .
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But if neither of these things happen , Labour will be forced to decide whether it is prepared to raise taxes.
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But these things happen at Catalina.
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Every now and again you're going to get exceptional circumstances and these things happen once in a while.
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In the event none of these things happened .
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In the way these things happen , the oppressed are sometimes revealed to have a hold on the oppressors.
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Once in a while these things happen and then you can communicate better.
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Possibly you see a great number of these things happening in your school, or perhaps you see very few.
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When these things happen , death flashes before our eyes.
these/British/our etc shores
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Even after the Renaissance and the rebirth of learning had reached these shores ears were still having a rough ride.
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His job was to show the captains of industry who came to these shores how to relax.
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In fact, nobody had made paved roads in Britain since the Romans left our shores .
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Meanwhile, beyond our shores , the world's industrial practices and capacities advanced.
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More than six centuries ago they had left these shores for Hamgyong Province in the North in search of a better life.
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The battle was lost, though, when many in high places yielded to pressures from beyond these shores .
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The reason the world and his wife head for these shores is they know that their chances of deportation are virtually non-existent.
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What would happen to us if 10,000 of them showed up on our shores ?