adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coastal area
▪ The bird is found mainly in coastal areas.
a coastal belt (=land along the coast)
▪ The wide coastal belt is a flat plain, partially wooded.
a coastal cliff
▪ Here the coastal cliffs are low, jutting out into the sea.
a coastal habitat (=a place near the coast where animals and plants live or grow)
▪ Dolphins are vulnerable to these poisons because of their coastal habitat.
a coastal/desert/mountain etc environment
▪ The storm caused significant damage to the coastal environment.
a coast/coastal/cliff path
▪ From the cliff path, you get superb views out to sea.
coastal scenery
▪ The walk takes in some of Britain’s most breathtaking coastal scenery.
coastal/border/central etc region
▪ Flooding is likely in some coastal regions of the Northeast during the early part of the week.
marine/coastal erosion (=on land that is close to the sea)
▪ Coastal erosion is worrying the local residents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh, earl of Chester.
▪ The first is to look for geological records of ancient tsunamis in coastal areas throughout the world.
▪ In some coastal areas basket making was a major female occupation.
▪ Global warming will cause the seas to rise, engulfing islands and flooding coastal areas.
▪ It refers to urban decline and work on rural and coastal areas.
▪ But a much smaller rise could be devastating for many coastal areas and islands.
▪ There is little fresh crab available except in coastal areas.
city
▪ They included the construction of sewage purification plants in 100 coastal cities and the establishment of at least 25 supervised toxic waste depots.
▪ Venice, therefore, had an imperative need to extend its influence over the Dalmatian coastal cities.
▪ At least 250 more people were reported to have been arrested on Nov. 14 and 15 in the coastal city of Alexandria.
community
▪ Exempt certain businesses and coastal communities from complying with wetlands regulations.
defences
▪ It said it was already paying for improved flood and coastal defences.
▪ Built in 1540 as one of Henry VIII's network of coastal defences, it is now little more than a rock pile.
▪ The results will be used to develop coastal defences.
district
▪ These passage-graves were covered with cairns of stone, frequently mixed with shells in coastal districts.
▪ The Hindu of May 20 reported that the death toll in the coastal districts had reached 817 and was expected to rise.
▪ Most records since 1947 have been for coastal districts, which perhaps just reflects the distribution of observers at the migration seasons.
▪ These are lean times for the poor small farmers who work marginal lands in the coastal districts.
erosion
▪ Waxholme is on the coast and suffers badly from coastal erosion.
▪ Exact positions of the 120 pegs will depend on the state of the beach due to the recent coastal erosion.
▪ In 1816 the old church at Owthorne finally succumbed to the coastal erosion and its remnants disappeared into the sea.
marsh
▪ One or two pairs breed in coastal marshes.
▪ Sandbanks and coastal marshes are now clear, as are the variations in the sediment load of the estuarine waters.
▪ Cattle fattening on the coastal marshes supported a prosperous peasantry as in Lincolnshire.
▪ In winter on estuaries, coastal marshes and farmland.
▪ The monks of Furness reclaimed the coastal marshes of Walney, with embankments incorporating beach pebbles.
path
▪ Volunteers will be constructing steps along a coastal path.
▪ The coastal path, Peddars Way, and Thetford Forest provide many interesting walks.
▪ The coastal path alone is sixty-five miles long.
▪ Easily Accessible: Dartmoor, with its woods, tors and ancient sites, and the long coastal path provide numerous walks.
▪ The work includes constructing steps along the coastal path and several days pitching on the nearby Glen River path.
▪ In winter we look for work on the more difficult lowland sites such as coastal paths.
▪ For walkers there is the excitement of exploring Dartmoor National Park and the miles of scenic coastal path.
plain
▪ The Hinkley Point development in fact erupts with total incongruity from the flat coastal plain which borders the Bristol Channel.
▪ We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos.
▪ For the Downland, sheep remained dominant; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given.
▪ Macadam until we run out of the coastal plain and start to climb.
▪ How different was the rich, irrigated coastal plain!
▪ Undulating coastal plains and other ungraded lowlands, underlain by permafrost, in summer form some of the tundra's wettest areas.
▪ The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.
▪ Where the road passed through the coastal plains there were farms with cattle grazing on knee-high grass.
region
▪ Meanwhile Grom's attentions had turned to the west and to the coastal regions of the Empire.
▪ For two days, police in the remote coastal region around Sodwana Bay had stumbled and fumbled their way into the case.
▪ An estimated 2,000,000 people either fled or were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.
▪ The coastal regions, those richest in marine life, were found to have the highest concentrations.
▪ It comes from coastal regions of Sierra Leone, again in soft, acid water.
▪ Unless expensive sea defences were built, low-lying coastal regions would be permanently submerged.
▪ These forests vary in character from closed forests to open woodlands and include mangrove forests that occur in coastal regions.
▪ Yesterday, Coun Davies said she understood that bids had been invited for exploration of the coastal region which included Aberconwy.
resort
▪ Thus the mixture of people in the coastal resorts is different from that in the industrial towns.
▪ This was mainly rural farmland with a few market towns and small coastal resorts.
▪ Some of the inland villages stood still in time and were quiet and peaceful respites from the glamour of the coastal resorts.
▪ In the worst-case scenario, coastal resorts, ports and communities face disaster or vast expenditure on coastal protection works.
road
▪ Soon we were off, heading northward, along the coastal road.
▪ Guests are transported by lift from the main coastal road to the garden setting.
▪ In recent years a new coastal road has been built from Ribeira Brava to Tabua.
▪ The route taken to the abbey was through the Circeo National Park and along the scenic coastal road next to the Tyrrhenian sea.
▪ The coastal road to the A259 linking the town with the Cross Channel Ports.
▪ There were salt marshes on the seaward side of the coastal road and Davis had found a causeway that flanked them.
▪ The A259 is the coastal road to the Cross Channel Ports.
site
▪ From the coastal sites at Shakespeare Cliff and Sandgatte the tunnels continue landward.
▪ We would like to re-emphasise the need to recycle coastal sites such as those used for power generation.
▪ For these rocks there is no need for a coastal site.
▪ Dounreay was chosen because it possesses cable links to the national grid and a suitable coastal site.
▪ An assessment is under way of some of the most important coastal sites and already widespread damage has been found.
strip
▪ And the ban will stay in place as long as the coastal strip is starved of much needed rain.
▪ The islanders inhabit the coastal strip only, and subsist almost entirely on royalties from the mining.
▪ Although hierarchy was not expressed by ritual along the coastal strip, inequality remained fundamental to perceptions of caste.
▪ With his vision of what they could achieve, he planned a whole series of assaults on airfields along the coastal strip.
▪ Large deposits of ash, burnt clay and associated briquetage have been found in numerous places along this coastal strip.
town
▪ Before the closing of the railway from Hull to the coastal town of Hornsea, Sutton was a station on the way.
▪ A displaced community outside the coastal town of Catumbela illustrates what canbe achieved.
▪ The coastal towns are expanding in their hinterlands rather than along the waterfront, and disused industrial areas are favoured for development.
▪ Olbia, a busy coastal town, serves the area with an airport.
▪ Together they made an arduous two-day trek across mountains with women and child refugees to the coastal town of Split.
▪ Rottingdean, coastal town in Sussex where Miss Pankey's aunt lived.
▪ The Crown had long had an unquestioned right to commandeer ships from coastal towns.
village
▪ She was brought up in Cramer, a coastal village a few miles from Dunstanburgh.
▪ The tour begins in Genoa, and proceeds along the Ligurian coast to the five hidden coastal villages of the Cinque Terre.
▪ Many of the small, pretty inland and coastal villages can be incorporated into walks.
walk
▪ There is a stunning 10-mile coastal walk from St Andrews to Crail.
▪ Excellent shops, fine coastal walks and lovely gardens complete this picturesque resort.
water
▪ Still and slow-moving fresh water, estuaries, sheltered coastal water, sometimes breeding in swamps.
▪ In Kent the coastal water is up to three metres higher than it should be.
▪ Margins of fresh and coastal water, marshes and cultivated land.
waters
▪ This renders them sterile and has resulted in their virtual elimination from the Southampton and Solent coastal waters.
▪ Most of these species of wrasse are commonly seen by divers in shallow coastal waters.
▪ Not only has it been sailing in calm coastal waters, but it also has one of your sea-marshals on board.
▪ Breed exclusively by fresh and brackish water and marshes; often in coastal waters on migration.
▪ The sailfish is found worldwide in tropical oceans, at the edge of coastal waters and in the open sea.
▪ It cooed about sewage treatment, environmental improvements and coastal waters.
▪ Experts from their Ross-on-Wye headquarters carried out an extensive survey of the coastal waters around the Shetland isles.
▪ Because it inhabits coastal waters in heavily populated and fished areas, the harbour porpoise has suffered greatly in recent years.
zone
▪ There is an opportunity here to explain why the coastal zone is so special.
▪ The deal envisaged would permit a limited resumption of commercial whaling inside the 200-mile coastal zones of the countries concerned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the coastal waters of Florida
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Altogether, it was a vast area whose different parts were cut off from each other except by slow coastal navigation.
▪ Exempt certain businesses and coastal communities from complying with wetlands regulations.
▪ First entering shallow equatorial seas, then estuaries and coastal oceans, the prehistoric cetaceans spread through the seas of the world.
▪ In the 1800s most fishermen were after whales, until their coastal net fishery wiped out local populations.
▪ In the worst-case scenario, coastal resorts, ports and communities face disaster or vast expenditure on coastal protection works.
▪ Pierluigi stood up to pull down his roller map of central coastal California.
▪ The coastal ports also saw an increased trade, especially with rich Byzantium.
▪ They included the construction of sewage purification plants in 100 coastal cities and the establishment of at least 25 supervised toxic waste depots.