noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a building programme
▪ We will continue with our hospital building programme.
a building/construction boom (=a sudden increase in building work)
▪ There’s been a recent construction boom in the Gulf.
a building/construction site
▪ He has worked on various building sites.
a farm building
▪ The farmhouse is separated by hedges from other farm buildings.
a recording/building etc contract
▪ The band was soon offered a recording contract with Columbia Records.
an apartment building (also an apartment block British English apartment house American English)
▪ a five-storey apartment block
▪ Our apartment building is the last block on the right, opposite the bank.
an engineering/building/electronics etc firm
▪ Fred worked for an electronics firm.
body building
building block
▪ Amino acids are the building blocks of protein.
building contractor
building materials
▪ a supply of building materials
building regulations (=relating to the structure of buildings)
▪ The Building Regulations no longer specify minimum ceiling heights.
building site
building society
building up...stock
▪ The country has been building up its stock of weapons.
confidence building (=making it develop)
▪ Training for a big match is all about confidence building.
housing/building landBritish English (= land where houses can be built)
▪ The shortage of housing land is a problem in the south-east.
in the building/retail etc line
▪ She’s keen to do something in the fashion line.
office building
sick building syndrome
▪ A common household fungus can contribute to sick building syndrome.
tenement building/house/block
Tudor house/buildings/architecture etc (=built in the style used in the Tudor period)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
historic
▪ In particular, it brought the demolition of most historic buildings in conservation areas under control.
▪ Holliday said he rushed outdoors to check out downtown's fragile, historic buildings after he caught his breath.
▪ But other hostels were successfully established in areas of outstanding beauty or interest, often in historic, unusual buildings.
▪ Several historic buildings around this area at the top of the High Street have been restored in recent years as student residences.
▪ One of these was for the creation of a new statutory historic buildings committee.
▪ And the setting - historic farm buildings amongst breathtaking countryside.
▪ Its only scourge - heavy lorries - rumbling through its streets, polluting the environment and damaging historic buildings.
large
▪ Today there is a large new building on the other side of the farm house and clipping and storage is conducted there.
▪ One mile to the south of the village lies Sand Hall, a large brick building erected in 1774.
▪ The excavation of a village may reveal a number of small buildings clustered around one much larger building.
▪ There was a good bookshop, and a large ruined building, gaunt and flaking, the Hibernian Hall.
▪ The interpretation of the large buildings as temples makes the system more complex.
▪ In large buildings, communication with other staff if often not easy but discretion is preferred to valour!
▪ At the end, in sunlight, was a large building with high windows and a big main door.
▪ The King had decided I would stay in the largest available building, just outside the city gates.
listed
▪ For example, in planning redevelopment, local authorities will take into account listed buildings in the area.
▪ The tower is now a listed building.
▪ Any work which materially affects the character of a listed building, inside or out, requires listed building consent.
▪ Shortly after buying it, Denega was refused listed building consent to demolish the chapel and develop 21 sheltered accommodation units.
▪ After an inquiry, the Minister granted planning permission and listed building consent for the demolition of the building.
▪ Repairs to the grade two listed building are expected to cost more than £1,000.
▪ It is an offence to demolish or to alter a listed building unless listed building consent has been obtained.
main
▪ The effect was heightened by the pavilions which straddled the track behind the main building.
▪ Some Enterprise rooms are in the annexe directly opposite the main building.
▪ Has the building been changed from the original by additions and alterations, and are these cracking away from the main building?
▪ But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge.
▪ The present thick Ethernet cabling outside the main building has too many tight-radius bends, which cause packet collision errors.
▪ The main building had a high pointed roof with a cupola on top.
▪ Part of the main building has recently been restored, but the bulk of the station is in a very poor state.
new
▪ Today there is a large new building on the other side of the farm house and clipping and storage is conducted there.
▪ The schools had not improved, although new school buildings were planned.
▪ In 1932, the school was promised a new building and never got it.
▪ Compared to our newer buildings, it is lacking in some of the more modern facilities.
▪ This cycle causes considerable market uncertainty affecting the occupiers, developers, investors and planners involved in new building.
▪ To give body to the reforms new building was needed on a massive scale.
▪ The machine, thirty feet long on the first floor of the new building had overheated.
▪ Alifabs Ambassador extruded aluminium fascia gutter and rainwater system is the design ideal for both new and existing buildings.
old
▪ Any architect knows that, as a rule, old buildings are more soundly built than new ones.
▪ Pier 70: Its small older buildings would make a historic district, Wong believes.
▪ He took a torch with him, left the car and entered the old building.
▪ Rimswell was mentioned in the Domesday Book, but there are no really old buildings left, although some are of interest.
▪ Beneath the palace were the ruins of at least three older buildings, he said.
▪ At Dovey Junction a new stand-up only passenger shelter has been erected following the demolition of the old buildings.
▪ The once bustling riverside is now a quiet street, with many of the old buildings well preserved.
▪ The old building, seen from the Thames on summer days, is quietly and broodingly majestic.
other
▪ No expense was spared to produce a station worthy to stand beside the other civic buildings.
▪ Not far away, silhouetting the pleasant pastures, is an ornate dovecote with other attractive buildings.
▪ There are other ways of building strength besides lifting weights.
▪ The height may be reduced and the other buildings will be lowered and not much else will show in profile Voice over.
▪ A pub, like any other old building, is far more than just its principle facade, or its four walls.
▪ Jessica stared about in every direction, but she could see no other buildings, or sign of human life.
▪ Many other important buildings were also razed to the ground.
▪ It must have been entered via a passage between other buildings.
public
▪ Detailing all listed buildings to help the public and building owners.
▪ The photographer also assembles an assortment of major public buildings whose poor designs have done their own damage to the city.
▪ The pub is the only public building serving the Trendlewood estate and its 3,000 residents.
▪ One of the most important changes we will see with many public buildings is their networking.
▪ Many jurisdictions have required nonsmoking areas in restaurants or banned smoking in public buildings.
▪ The building looks like a library or similar public building with its classical portico and columns with Ionic capitals.
▪ As for public buildings, I still like visiting the Getty Museum.
small
▪ At least some of the seven small buildings just outside the military compounds at Corbridge may also belong in this category.
▪ For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.
▪ They left behind them a mouldering group of small loft buildings whose interior columns might once have been ships' masts.
▪ The port also has plans for Pier 70 where 40 to 50 small buildings could comprise a historical district.
▪ The summit of Kilgrimol was almost level, bearing only a small round building of stone with a high peak of thatch.
▪ Parallel to this row of huts was another row of small cubical buildings that sat off the ground on four posts.
▪ The excavation of a village may reveal a number of small buildings clustered around one much larger building.
▪ Surrounding the town square were numerous small buildings, including the courthouse.
tall
▪ Ever. 22 October Tall buildings loom before me.
▪ It gusted into every overhang of concrete, whistled down the brick funnels on the tall building where she lived.
▪ Before the steel skeleton, tall buildings were made of stone.
▪ A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings.
▪ He did one of New York tall buildings, a sunny day.
▪ Britain's tallest building, the Post Office Tower in London, opened, 1965.
▪ Urban environments imply low air quality very high levels of light pollution, and serious obscuration of the sky by tall buildings.
■ NOUN
apartment
▪ The city is subsidizing private property managers to renovate and buy 200 city-owned apartment buildings.
▪ For 10 days, many small apartment buildings and old wooden houses had no heat.
▪ I waited for him for an hour, outside his half-built apartment building.
▪ It provides hot water units for apartment buildings and swimming pools.
▪ The horizontality of her fallen body is juxtaposed to the vertical thrust of the apartment building.
▪ Many of the apartment buildings fell into disrepair from the 1950s on, some so badly that the city demolished them.
▪ In Lezhe we found a contractor who had just completed a couple of impressive apartment buildings.
▪ Check those apartment buildings next door-who owns them?
block
▪ Words, pictures, initiatives, and personal actions provide the buildings blocks for vision.
▪ Analogue design remains important because it accommodates and defines the basic building blocks of electronics.
▪ They formed gases and ultimately amino acids, the so-called building blocks of life.
▪ All vertebrates have basically the same building blocks but they are put together in different ways.
▪ So the question is: What are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made?
▪ She sat on the floor with building blocks and toys you could push about.
farm
▪ It benefits from a lovely site, opposite the parish church and close to farm buildings, away from the village centre.
▪ For economy in building costs, these three types of farm buildings were sometimes combined into a single building.
▪ The farm buildings so often found below the galleries are situated further away in this case.
▪ The gallery on this house on Church Hill was probably part of larger farm buildings facing the meadows.
▪ The aircraft was stored de-rigged in farm buildings.
▪ A well and cheese press are below in the yard with the farm buildings situated below and behind the gallery.
material
▪ Consequently, the fall in demand for building materials and construction workers will generate downward multiplier effects on other types of investment.
▪ Many building materials such as lime mortars and plasters, Portland cement and asbestos cement develop alkalis.
▪ But one inventor thinks he has the answer - a building material made of straw that can withstand very high temperatures.
▪ Traditionally Byzantine in the building materials and plan, it is more eastern in the decoration and treatment.
▪ Yet no one teaches these birds how to find their building materials, how to prepare them, how to weave them.
▪ Loess is a clay that is easily cut and holds its shape; it can be incredibly accommodating as a building material.
▪ So acids, it would seem, are associated with the paints, alkalis with the building materials.
office
▪ But with office buildings there is no allowance at all.
▪ Even in federal jobs and office buildings in Washington where black employees had once worked freely with whites, segregation was reestablished.
▪ Higher up the hill the streets were full of office buildings, so that the parishioners were caretakers.
▪ They smoke between classes and after lunch, much like their adult counterparts who huddle outside office buildings for smoke breaks.
▪ She gazed down at the London horizon, its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings.
▪ He had just heard the full story from Nigel Cramer in his office atop the Home Office building.
▪ In addition, office buildings abandoned in the real-estate crash of the late-1980s are being reborn as apartments and condominiums.
school
▪ Now his lifesize copies of himself can be seen clambering over the school buildings.
▪ Just as the Empire State Building contains hundreds of companies, so could all our big school buildings contain many schools.
▪ Now they've been given a derelict school building, gutted by fire, for their new community association.
▪ The schools had not improved, although new school buildings were planned.
▪ The schools building programme ceased in 1985, and at that time too teachers' real salaries began to decline rapidly.
▪ And they praised the use of metal detectors to prevent students from carrying guns into school buildings.
▪ The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education, with the exception of some school building.
▪ We are, unfortunately, stuck with the huge, unpleasant, and often downright ugly school buildings that we have.
site
▪ This seems to them more like a building site than a City office.
▪ All over the city are huge building sites where the sun pours into vast craters.
▪ He had, meantime, managed to get himself a job on a building site.
▪ As part of his job he is required to visit building sites.
▪ A near miracle to those of us who have been contemplating what seemed an eternal building site.
▪ It would have been with some one butch, a Guardsman or a man on a building site.
▪ These provisions vary depending on the nature of your work - a building site is obviously different from an office.
society
▪ Several petrol stations and a building society in the town have already installed the equipment.
▪ When the houses are up, the co-operative takes out a real loan with a building society.
▪ She agreed to accompany me to the building society the next day so that we could withdraw Charlie's share of the money.
▪ In practice, it is only the largest of building societies which can offer a real competitive challenge.
▪ Until 1983 building societies were prevented from so doing.
▪ Another feature of building society expansion in recent years has been the increasing concentration of the industry through merger activity.
▪ This time it was the Leeds building society, again in Oxford, again it was an armed raid.
▪ M4 is M3 plus building society deposits.
work
▪ Before any building work began County Durham archaeologists from the Bowes Museum wanted to make a thorough check of what was buried.
▪ As problems emerged, building work was switched from one industrial consortium to another.
▪ For example, consider a computer system designed to be used to estimate the cost of building work.
▪ And last night the council gave its approval, building work could start within the next few months.
▪ However, that will take man power away from essential building work and the development of the railway will be delayed.
▪ The nature of building work normally necessitates the use of a gang.
▪ The site will be completely cleared and made safe until building work can start on the new development.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Elvis/sb/sth has left the building
building blocks
turn a room/building etc inside out
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an apartment building
▪ Brewer Hall is a red-brick building with white trim.
▪ It was the invention of pre-stressed concrete that really transformed building techniques.
▪ The new law will increase building costs.
▪ The Sears Tower is one of the tallest buildings in the world.
▪ The whole building shook when a train went past.
▪ There's a plan to convert the farm buildings into private apartments.
▪ There has been an increase in new-home building in recent months.
▪ They made a documentary on the building of the State Capitol.
▪ Thousands of workers in the building industry will lose their jobs as a result of cutbacks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chemicals may be released from materials in buildings or furnishings.
▪ Her goal proved to be a tall, thin building, leaning like an amiable drunk, supported by its neighbours.
▪ More than 600 people were injured and 300 surrounding buildings were damaged by the force of the explosion.
▪ Under the clear astrodome she walked to the admin building, the sensors at Kandinskaya's door showing red.