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Example sentences for: collocations

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In Great Britain the Cobuild Collocations Dictionary is eagerly awaited.
One of the features of this style was the alliterating, punning phrase, often used as a headline--wasted wowsers vied with watery wowsers and indeed with weird and worried wowsers, and the exercise was often carried to extremes--witness collocations like pious, Puritanical, pragmatical, pulpit-pounding self-pursuers whom we call wowsers, or bald-headed, bad-breathed, bible-banging bummer, who ought to be banged with a bowser.
From a hint given on page 51, one gathers that Kozlowska studied at Edinburgh University; from her facility with the English used in her discussion of collocations, one gains the impression that she has excellent control of the language.
No one could claim that it is an easy task to create collocations dictionaries: the chief problem is where to draw the proverbial line on a spectrum ranging from complete predictability, usually on a left-to-right basis, to total volatility of association by mere juxtaposition, for example, corned beef v. cheap beef .
It is a series of sounds impressed into a kind of semantic slavery, for urltil recently the collocations could do no semantic work on their own in their present form.