I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas explosion
▪ Firefighters say that a gas explosion destroyed the building.
a gas fire
▪ She lit the gas fire and settled in front of the TV.
a gas flame
▪ The glass is heated over a gas flame.
a gas pipe
an electricity/gas/phone etc bill
▪ I’ll have to pay the gas bill too next month.
Calor gas
coal gas
combustible material/gas etc
CS gas
drill for oil/water/gas etc
▪ BP has been licensed to drill for oil in the area.
electrical/gas appliance
fuel/electricity/gas consumption
▪ There are three possible methods of reducing oil consumption.
gas chamber
gas man/rent man etc
▪ I waited all day for the gas man.
gas mask
gas meter
gas pedal
gas ring
gas station
gas turbine
▪ the ship’s four gas turbine engines
gas/torture chamber (=used for killing people by gas or for hurting them)
greenhouse gas
laughing gas
marsh gas
mustard gas
natural gas
nerve gas
petrol pump/gas pump (=for putting petrol into cars)
plume of smoke/dust/gas/spray etc
▪ A black plume of smoke rose above the city.
poison gas
▪ There are reports that poison gas is being used against the rebels.
pump gasAmerican English (= put gasoline into a car)
▪ He got a job pumping gas for the hotel guests.
run on electricity/gas/petrol etc (=get its power from electricity etc)
▪ Most cars run on unleaded fuel.
sulphur dioxide/carbon dioxide/greenhouse gas etc emissions
▪ The treaty calls for a 30% reduction in sulphur dioxide emissions.
tear gas
▪ The police used tear gas to break up the demonstration.
toxic chemicals/substances/fumes/gases
▪ Toxic chemicals were spilled into the river.
water/gas/electricity meter
▪ A man came to read the electricity meter.
▪ The taxi driver left the meter running while I ran in to pick up my bags.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
large
▪ It offers considerable future potential for the discovery of large oil and gas reserves.
▪ Because the silica in andesite makes it thick and pasty, andesite tends to trap large amounts of gas.
▪ About 4.5 billion years ago a large cloud of gas slowly contracted under gravity into the glowing ball that became the Sun.
▪ On weekends I washed cars at a large gas station near our home.
▪ A large exhaust gas pressure implies that there is not much flow to the gas.
natural
▪ The share of demand for natural gas should rise to some 17% by the year 2000.
▪ Projected demand for natural gas 4.
▪ One energy mix simply chose the cheapest options for supplying energy - using entirely coal, oil and natural gas.
▪ The dwindling supplies of crude oil and natural gas are frequently discussed in newspaper articles.
▪ It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
▪ Conventional wisdom did not favor retrofitting to coal use boilers originally designed for oil or natural gas.
▪ However, because of the much higher efficiency, such a configuration need not entail much higher natural gas demand.
▪ Let us choose a coal which upon combustion yields 2. 0. Natural gas Produces negligible 502.
■ NOUN
appliance
▪ Extending the regulations to more types of gas appliances including premises using gas from cylinders or garden tanks.
▪ It's often caused by poorly installed gas appliances.
▪ Ensure that all your gas appliances are regularly serviced.
▪ The Society already has an extensive collection of gas appliances which will also be displayed.
▪ These include faulty gas appliances and flammable furniture, two of the biggest causes of death by fire.
▪ The poisonous gas is called carbon monoxide and gas appliances can produce it if they're not regularly serviced.
▪ This check will show whether your gas appliances and installations are safe to use.
bill
▪ If the Government won't boost pensions, can't it help with gas bills and the like?
▪ I got the gas bill and the bill for electricity.
▪ You think to yourself, yes I could get the kids shoes or pay the gas bill.
▪ However, increasing water, electricity and gas bills are adding to production cost pressures, the association says.
▪ She followed her last winter gas bill with a decision to turn off several heaters.
▪ What she couldn't understand was the more she shivered ... the higher the gas bills.
▪ Voice over Meanwhile downstairs neighbour Nikki Davies was delighted with her gas bills.
▪ You can use gas stamps to pay your electricity bill and electricity stamps to pay for your gas bill.
chamber
▪ The gas chamber, Maryland Penitentiary.
▪ The last to die was David Mason, who was sent to the gas chamber in August 1993.
▪ Like a gas chamber, it overwhelms.
▪ Fourteen murders was more than enough for jurors to vote Bonin into the gas chamber.
▪ They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.
▪ Whole families crowded into gas chambers, their clothing, gold fillings, and eyeglasses more valued than their lives.
▪ Ronald Reagan appointee, was on the panel that unanimously upheld the gas chamber ban Wednesday.
▪ It took him 11 years to get to the gas chamber, from the day he was convicted of five murders.
cloud
▪ A heavy overcast like a poison gas cloud was stationary over the battered city.
coal
▪ Meanwhile the manager had started to put coal gas into the other, oxygen, bag.
▪ And the smell of coal gas forces residents to wear make-shift masks.
▪ I vividly recall the smell of damp wool and coal gas, which was unlike anything I'd experienced before.
▪ He was also first in his use of coal gas for train lighting in 1862.
▪ It was also while Murdock was living in Redruth that he started his experiments with coal gas.
▪ He was also the first person to use coal gas for lighting purposes.
▪ Murdock's investigations of coal gas were a direct result of his search for materials to preserve the bottom of ships.
company
▪ Mrs. Chalker I am aware that a number of United Kingdom oil and gas companies are extremely interested.
▪ We have ambitions to become the world's first Global gas company and already operate in 20 countries.
▪ Gas utility companies fell after the government said it was considering allowing non-gas companies to enter the retail gas market.
cooker
▪ Emily Mahon stood in front of the gas cooker and grilled the ten rashers that she served every morning except Friday.
▪ It is the start of a new generation of gas cookers.
▪ Instead he'd fill his aluminium container and take it back to boil on his small gas cooker.
▪ From outside in the passageway the sound of water bubbling and steaming on the old gas cooker could be heard.
▪ Britain's most advanced gas cooker.
▪ Clarence entered the park at the request of the Trust to repair the gas cooker in the cafeteria.
cylinder
▪ Teesside trains were also stopped when firemen discovered a gas cylinder near the fire.
▪ Hassan has to buy gas cylinders to light the stove and the two small lamps that light his apartment.
▪ One of the boats sank after gas cylinders inside exploded.The other was completely burned out.Richard Barnet reports.
▪ Rolled up, admittedly, but those things can be opened and inflated from their gas cylinders in seconds.
▪ There are candles and a gas cylinder.
▪ I assemble my Trangia and cook food, avoiding the almost overwhelming temptation to use the gas cylinder.
▪ Another was attached to a high pressure gas cylinder.
▪ Since the attack, the gas cylinders have remained out of use.
emission
▪ What has emerged so far confirms the pessimism that has settled over the international effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ The market could grow much bigger if countries further subsidize wind power to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ Focuses on urban ecology, social equity, land conservation, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental quality.
▪ However, no such action was to be credited against any forthcoming national required reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ The Committee also outlined tough recommendations on how greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced.
▪ The report lists practical measures that, if implemented, will help restrict greenhouse gas emissions with a view to meeting these targets.
explosion
▪ Coal gas production became involved with safe gas explosions.
▪ A natural gas explosion that killed three and injured more than 20 others in 1992 has made the community particularly wary.
▪ Ronan Point, a 22-storey block in East London, crumbled like a pack of cards after a gas explosion in 1968.
▪ There had been a gas explosion and there were several casualties.
field
▪ Moreover there are indications that in this gas field a secondary fracture porosity may exist.
▪ On the liquids front condensate is being produced at the Kapuni on-shore gas field.
▪ No gas fields occur in the Bramsche and Vlotho Massifs, although in the past many boreholes have been drilled there.
▪ Privatization of oil and gas fields A decision to privatize oil and gas fields was announced on Oct. 1.
▪ The Atyrausk zone contained oil and gas fields.
fire
▪ The Echo investigation highlighted a series of deaths caused by carbon monoxide poisoning from faulty gas fires.
▪ It had minimal busted furniture, yellow walls and a gas fire.
▪ She was beside the gas fire, just staring.
▪ She made herself a high tea, put the gas fire on full blast and sat with a tray in front of the television.
▪ He also lit the portable gas fire.
▪ She perched on the edge of the sofa, gazing into the mock flames from the gas fire.
▪ From time to time there are special offers on gas fires.
flame
▪ The saffron-azure of the gas flame starred the orange dark.
▪ Later we ate lunch in front of the trembling gas flame.
▪ Woks are best used over a gas flame.
▪ The process uses a natural gas flame to break down the effluent into sulphur dioxide.
▪ Cookability Even though the gas flames are shielded, you lose none of the beauty of cooking with gas.
▪ Skin the peppers by roasting over a gas flame or under the grill until the skin blisters black.
▪ The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes.
greenhouse
▪ Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, each molecule trapping 25 times as much heat radiation as one molecule of carbon dioxide.
▪ But it might contribute to global warming because methane is a powerful greenhouse gas.
▪ Carbon monoxide is also a powerful greenhouse gas.
▪ The market could grow much bigger if countries further subsidize wind power to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ The drainage of peatbogs for forestry and agriculture is making a significant net contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, the report concludes.
▪ Water vapour is a naturally occurring greenhouse gas but the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere is affected by human activities.
▪ What has emerged so far confirms the pessimism that has settled over the international effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
▪ Home energy efficiency is increasingly seen as a route to a reduction in national greenhouse gas emissions.
industry
▪ We have argued for greater competition in the gas industry than the Government have ever sought to provide.
▪ The natural gas industry likewise argues for more domestic production, including on federal lands that are now off-limits.
▪ Significant economic growth and social change has been brought about as a result of the offshore oil and gas industry.
▪ These relate to her previous business activities in the gas industry, which she now says she is reforming.
▪ Careers leaflets, technical booklets, teaching materials and general information on all aspects of the oil and gas industry.
▪ An accountant by training, Lord Simpson, 58, began his career in the gas industry.
▪ A decline in coal demand would benefit either the nuclear or gas industries.
▪ The oil and gas industry has lost more jobs since 1982 than the country's car, steel and textile industries combined.
lamp
▪ The gas lamp flickered and spluttered above him, sending moving shadows across the walls.
▪ In the windows of the decrepit houses, gas lamps were beginning to be lighted.
▪ In the light of the yellow gas lamp there was neither day nor night.
▪ A long line of gas lamps ran along each wall, giving it a dim smoky glow.
▪ Capshaw got up and turned the valve on the gas lamp.
▪ Down in the dark and foggy street a figure stood waiting beneath a lighted gas lamp.
▪ He sat back in the armchair and watched the smoke drifting upwards from his pipe towards the gas lamp.
leak
▪ Vote paves way, page 2 News in brief: Ferries held up by gas leak.
▪ Forcing independent gas suppliers to respond to gas leaks reported to them.
▪ The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak.
▪ But firemen confirmed the blast at 3.42am was caused by a gas leak from a water heater.
▪ The first reactor was closed down for repairs earlier this year after a gas leak.
▪ Delicate arrangements are required to maintain the controlled gas leak and these are prone to wear and maintenance problems.
▪ That was the occasion when a gas leak caused an explosion which wrecked an entire tenement.
▪ But responding to Nathan Bryce's flirting was about as wise as striking matches to find a gas leak.
mark
▪ The heat in Keegan's kitchen barely rose above gas mark one.
▪ Place pan in a preheated hot oven 200 °C gas mark 6.
▪ Return pan to oven and increase heat to 220 °C gas mark 7.
mask
▪ They took gas masks and attached grenades to their belts.
▪ Delaney snapped on his gas mask.
▪ Some even began wearing gas masks to block the suspicious fumes.
▪ Heard him say that sirens were blowing and people were donning gas masks and moving into sealed rooms.
▪ While they all wore gas masks, none were tightly clothed, and none wore gloves.
▪ Every child had a gas mask and a suitcase, or paper parcel.
▪ Everywhere I went, I carried the gas mask I had purchased on the black market.
methane
▪ The blast, 610m below ground, is thought to have been caused by a mix of coal dust and methane gas.
▪ Four others are hooked into systems to control the release of methane gas.
▪ Experts believe the absence of water in the toilet allowed a lethal build-up of methane gas.
▪ Then it is combined with hydrogen in a catalytic converter to produce methane gas and water.
▪ It is the biggest single concept, many others being devoted to using methane gas at waste product dumps.
▪ That plant uses methane gas from the landfill to generate electricity.
▪ Furthermore, once initiated, the combustion of methane gas at 25°C is very spontaneous.
▪ As with domestic refuse, the problems of methane gas generation also exist when disposing of industrial waste underground.
mustard
▪ The leaves of cabbages, mustard and some other brassicas contain toxic mustard oil, similar to the deadly mustard gas.
▪ The world greeted the news as if President Tucker had reintroduced mustard gas.
▪ Gene mutations occur spontaneously and can be induced by mutagenic agents such has high temperature, mustard gas, and radiation.
▪ It was called mustard gas and was used at Ypres in 1917, when it caused many thousands of casualties.
▪ Four kids to rear and a husband coughing away his lungs from mustard gas.
nerve
▪ The nerve gas would only be released if the incorrect code was programmed twice into the computer.
▪ Yep, that Soviet nerve gas, all hooked up to a computerized bomb.
▪ The essence was there in all its hideous implication. Nerve gas tests with human tissue.
▪ And much of the liquid used to simulate nerve gas at the test site was contained by the wooden crates.
▪ A new form of nerve gas?
▪ The fact was he had broken a Senate tie back in 1983 and voted for the production of nerve gas.
oven
▪ If you have a gas oven, you may use a special lighter wand to spark it off.
▪ Saturday night I always do the gas oven out.
▪ I knew that occasionally people put their heads in gas ovens, but there was no mention of that.
▪ His sister-in-law kills hers, along with its two small cousins, before swallowing poison herself sooner than surrender to the gas ovens.
▪ The blast - triggered when Alan lit his gas oven - had ripped off his clothes.
▪ Jimmy popped into the scullery then to turn the mutton chops in the pan in the gas oven.
▪ A month later she stuck her head into a gas oven.
▪ She even forgot about Rab, pondering between the river and the gas oven.
pipeline
▪ Many problems lie ahead for the development of gas pipelines, but the prospects are increasingly positive.
▪ Cities are full of gas stations, motor vehicles, natural gas pipelines, and the like.
▪ Without those proposals, I am sure that the gas pipeline would never even have got out of the locker.
▪ What should be the first region to be developed for the long-distance gas pipeline?
▪ To fill the gap, imports from the Siberian gas pipeline are envisaged.
▪ But the war is also about the building of a gas pipeline.
poison
▪ It's a land where doom hangs upon the air like poison gas.
▪ At the time, however, I feared poison gas.
▪ There was fear of poison gas, in a nation where Zyklon-B was part of the collective memory.
▪ Bombs and poison gas would rain down on undefended cities.
▪ If this emission takes place it triggers the breaking of a vial of poison gas which instantaneously kills the cat.
▪ A heavy overcast like a poison gas cloud was stationary over the battered city.
▪ Whether it's against poison gas or pollution or radiation he can't say.
price
▪ The critical aspect still to be agreed was the gas price.
▪ The concept that has predominated is that higher oil and gas prices are better.
▪ In 1954 wellhead gas prices also came under government control.
▪ The high gas prices and long lines were prolonged by government interference in the private sector.
▪ But rising gas prices in the 1970s forced the corporation to abandon the project.
▪ Energy stocks ended the year on the upside, enjoying higher natural gas prices and lower inventories.
▪ Oil companies fell in response to weaker crude oil and natural gas prices.
▪ Natural gas prices also tumbled amid concern warmer weather would dampen demand for heating fuels.
production
▪ Figures produced at a World Energy Conference showed that oil and gas production should reach a peak between 1985 and 2000.
▪ Coal gas production became involved with safe gas explosions.
▪ The words add urgency to the administration's push to increase domestic oil and gas production.
▪ About 24 percent of such gas production globally is attributed to the United States.
▪ Oil and gas production in the Permian is on a seemingly inevitable decline.
▪ Conclusions Reservoir rocks suitable for gas production are widely developed in the Zechstein.
▪ The platform carbonates are probably the most important reservoir in the Zechstein and most gas production comes from these sediments.
reserve
▪ The Caspian basin, which is rich in oil and gas reserves, is central to his new foreign policy doctrine.
▪ It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
▪ Chesapeake believes there are substantial oil and gas reserves in this eastern leg of the geological formation known as the Austin chalk.
ring
▪ He threw down the knife, turned off the gas ring and stamped down the hall.
▪ An analogy from control engineering would be a kettle on a gas ring.
▪ In one corner is a gas ring, in another a table with some school books on it.
▪ There is a gas ring in my room and the percolator is bubbling.
▪ And once he had realized that ... To the left of the gas ring was a note.
station
▪ Shortages of imported oil sparked lines at gas stations and sent energy prices skyrocketing.
▪ I pulled into a gas station this morning.
▪ In 1973 she married her present husband, Taufik Kiemas, a well-connected businessman who owns a string of gas stations.
▪ She then began pointing to a gas station, or what used to be a gas station.
▪ Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station.
▪ In many towns I stopped in, the public buildings were a store, a gas station, and a museum.
▪ Atop the gas station at Everett, Washington State.
▪ And that fall takes her to a nearby gas station, presided over by 20-something Jimmy.
stove
▪ The gas stove was commonplace enough, although very old, standing on four straight legs.
▪ Leila cooks on a tiny gas stove nestled into the hold of one of the boats.
▪ A is the armchair and E the gas stove.
▪ And where was her gas stove and the red rose bush from the yard?
▪ Then we boiled it dutifully and heated our tins on the Calor gas stove in the kitchen.
▪ She lights the gas stove, and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.
▪ To fight dirt costs more it you have only a gas stove on which to heat water.
▪ For many years I huddled over a calor gas stove in the winter and ate beans on toast.
supply
▪ Some estimates suggest that up to 11 percent of total gas supply in Britain is being lost.
▪ Now, with temperatures warming and demand easing, greater gas supply and pipeline space are becoming available.
▪ Alarms sound if gas supplies break down, and automatically connect reserve tanks.
▪ The gas supply situation is, however, the subject of some controversy with substantial differences appearing in estimates by authoritative groups.
▪ A simple change in the weather can make significant changes in demand on the gas supply system.
▪ Interruptible gas supplies undercut the cost of fuel oil considerably.
▪ But neither at school nor at home was there a gas supply.
▪ Wave charts show breathing pattern, and alarms sound if breathing falters or gas supplies are affected.
tank
▪ This will also entail moving the gas tanks which feed over 200 point heaters in the station throat.
▪ Others squeeze their bodies into gas tanks.
▪ Then fill up the gas tank.
▪ Find something to eat and fill up the gas tank and see what the day brought.
tax
▪ Sam Nunn said Thursday that he will support a minimum wage increase and oppose a repeal of the gas tax.
▪ The gas tax rollback, initiated because gasoline prices spiked this spring, has since fallen by the wayside.
▪ The White House sidestepped questions about linking the gas tax repeal with the minimum wage.
▪ Phil Gramm, R-Tex., urged his colleagues to cut the gas tax in order to help low-income families, Sen.
▪ The courageous thing for Clinton to do would be to veto the repeal of the gas tax.
▪ But that was before presidential politics intruded and the 4. 3-cent-a-gallon gas tax suddenly took on huge political import.
tear
▪ The Washington police fired tear gas at them and the gas was blown at once across the White House garden.
▪ Charlie mixed in some tear gas with the mine.
▪ The Army moved in with a water cannon and tear gas, forcing the marchers into hasty retreat.
▪ They had to use tear gas to drive off the rioters.
▪ On Sept. 17 reports stated that tear gas was used to halt protests at a Mandalay high school.
▪ A tear gas canister fatally wounded one young demonstrator.
▪ We tried to run out, but there was more tear gas outside the stadium.
▪ Initially rounds of tear gas were exchanged but later shots were fired.
turbine
▪ Subcontractor, Woodward Governor, also provided an interesting display with the Netcon 500 gas turbine monitoring and control system.
▪ The batteries are charged on-board by a small gas turbine auxiliary propulsion unit.
▪ The gas turbine also keeps the batteries topped up.
▪ One of its most significant features is the choice of a gas turbine rather than internal combustion engine.
▪ Rolls-Royce has a strong order book in aero gas turbines and the prospect of further large orders in a buoyant aircraft market.
■ VERB
light
▪ He lit the gas mantle and light beamed.
▪ The room was quite brightly lit by two gas brackets, one at each side of a shining black stove.
▪ She lit the gas and filled the kettle, then warmed her hands over the lid while the water boiled.
▪ He also lit the portable gas fire.
▪ She was able to light the gas and make tea in the big brown family teapot.
▪ She lights the gas stove, and makes herself a breakfast of muesli, wholemeal toast and decaffeinated coffee.
▪ He lit one of the gas mantles above the fireplace.
produce
▪ We don't just produce gas guzzlers.
▪ One is hemorrhage produced by gas in the capillaries in the eye socket.
▪ It took no more time to produce the gas by the new method than it did using metals and acids.
▪ Then it is combined with hydrogen in a catalytic converter to produce methane gas and water.
▪ Later he considered a centralised system able to produce gas for a whole neighbourhood.
▪ Another example is the use of both urban and agricultural wastes to produce methane gas under controlled fermentation.
▪ Methanol could well become a significant fuel for transportation and is already being produced from natural gas in New Zealand.
▪ These unexceptionable points, however, are merely the leaven that produce the gas to lighten the dough.
pump
▪ But, the Daily Mirror revealed in May, it will pump deadly Krypton gas back into the atmosphere.
▪ Before he made it to Broadway, Kelly pumped gas.
▪ Consequently all the cryogenic tanks and pipes were pre-cooled by pumping cold gas through the supply lines.
▪ He bootlegged whiskey, pumped gas, worked in a steel mill handling hot wire, stole hubcaps.
▪ After two years of college, Swensson completed a two-week Standard Oil training course and went to work pumping gas.
▪ He wanted to be an auto mechanic, but, really, he pumped gas.
run
▪ In time, local villages had piped gas, running from the gas generator.
▪ Mechanics were needed to keep them running, gas stations to fuel them, insurance agents to insure themthe list is endless.
▪ The engine was started and run solely on gasifier-produced gas and employed another ingenious hybrid device as a speed regulator.
▪ The other crash came about because the plane ran out of gas.
▪ Half way there you run out of gas.
▪ Five minutes later she ran out of gas.
▪ Or you could have your engine converted to run on gas.
▪ Has the husky engine of real estate that Cotton watched drive the county out of multiple recessions run out of gas?
step
▪ According to his lawyer, Brooks claims he heard some one utter the N-word, so he stepped on the gas.
▪ A car honked behind him, and Miguel gratefully stepped on the gas.
▪ Miguel stepped on the gas, roaring past all of them with a gust of dirt.
▪ Then he stepped on the gas and sped away from him.
▪ He stepped on the gas suddenly.
▪ A movement toward the driver halted as he stepped on the gas, forcing the woman to jump out of his way.
▪ Miguel stepped on the gas and grinned.
turn
▪ Warm the solid and it turns straight back into gas.
▪ I went into my dark little room and turned on the gas jet.
▪ Leslie offloaded to Hodge, Tom Smith dummied and turned on the gas to score.
▪ I had turned out the gas jet and did not have a match with which to relight it.
▪ He turned on the gas and put a match to the stove so that it could warm the office.
▪ Ellie, who had the only key, arrived first and, turned up the gas heater in the large bright bedroom.
▪ As he turned out the gas jet he whistled to himself.
▪ The teakettle came to a boil and I turned the gas off.
use
▪ Extending the regulations to more types of gas appliances including premises using gas from cylinders or garden tanks.
▪ To eliminate scale-up assumptions demonstration data were obtained using a recycle gas flow configuration.
▪ The reason for that is the ability to use natural gas as a feedstock.
▪ Outside the group's headquarters, police and soldiers used tear gas against demonstrators.
▪ While addressing this economic question, how can we use natural gas to mitigate the environmental consequences of increased coal burning?
▪ But having looked at this I don't think I shall be using the gas, let's put it that way.
▪ They had to use tear gas to drive off the rioters.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas/oil/water etc leak
▪ But firemen confirmed the blast at 3.42am was caused by a gas leak from a water heater.
▪ But responding to Nathan Bryce's flirting was about as wise as striking matches to find a gas leak.
▪ That was the occasion when a gas leak caused an explosion which wrecked an entire tenement.
▪ The first reactor was closed down for repairs earlier this year after a gas leak.
▪ The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak.
be cooking (with gas)
▪ Laundry flew from the flagpoles; windows were broken or boarded-up; there were cooking fires in the roads.
▪ Once in a while, think about why you are cooking, serving and eating together as a family.
▪ Soon I saw a small hut where an old man was cooking his breakfast over a fire.
▪ The air was rippling with heat above the goats, as if they were cooking.
▪ The East Village was cooking then.
▪ While parsnips are cooking, in a small skillet, saute onion and saffron in butter until soft but not browned.
▪ While the Quorn mixture is cooking, cook the rice according to the instructions.
▪ While the rice is cooking, add the saffron to the stock and allow to stand. 4.
coal/oil/gas field
▪ A slim slice of those revenues has always been cut for the communities in the oil fields, local politicians say.
▪ A third appraisal of this potentially significant heavy oil field will be drilled in 1993.
▪ For many residents of the oil fields, Pemex executives seem little different from the foreign overlords they replaced.
▪ Moreover there are indications that in this gas field a secondary fracture porosity may exist.
▪ North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field.
▪ The downturn in the energy industry dragged on so long that workers drifted away and oil field equipment became outdated.
▪ We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
gas/electricity/water etc supply
▪ But neither at school nor at home was there a gas supply.
▪ Is there an electricity supply? 7.
▪ It is claimed the dust left behind pollutes water supplies.
▪ That left municipal water supply as the sole conceivable justification.
▪ The cisterns were the huge catchment tanks which held the city's water supply.
▪ The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.
▪ This' black rain' left a sticky oily coating on people, livestock, crops, water supplies and buildings.
mains gas/water/electricity
▪ A smaller pond was pressure cleaned and filled with direct mains water.
▪ Even horse clippers were powered by this system, but this was replaced by mains electricity.
▪ Facilities are basic - only one has mains electricity - although all have a toilet and cold water.
▪ In every case there is mains electricity & a good water supply.
▪ My mains water is a problem.
▪ The station, seven miles from the nearest road, has no mains electricity.
▪ Used in such a way, there is no requirement for electricity, telephones, mains water or drainage.
noble gas/metal
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a gas stove
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he was on a weekend break visiting relatives in the town when he sniffed the gas.
▪ Perhaps when unhappy people die they release an effluvium of depression, like marsh gas.
▪ With the M16, that gas was ported straight into the bolt.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
coal
▪ This ruling would appear to accommodate our 25: 75 percent gas: coal scenario.
▪ These reasons rest largely upon the intermediate nature of various properties of residual oil as compared to gas and coal.
oil
▪ That's more profit than the oil and gas industry and twice as much as the auto industry.
▪ But these conventional products caused problems for companies wanting to produce oil and gas offshore.
▪ S.-based oil companies now receive for taxes they pay on oil and gas produced abroad.
▪ These reasons rest largely upon the intermediate nature of various properties of residual oil as compared to gas and coal.
s
▪ The lower price estimate is based on new projections that show larger U. S. gas reserves than previously thought.
tear
▪ The guards used to fire blasts of tear-gas into the cells while forcing their occupants to shout out their names.
▪ The night sky was lit by flames from burning cars, the smoky air stinging with tear gas.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gas/oil/water etc leak
▪ But firemen confirmed the blast at 3.42am was caused by a gas leak from a water heater.
▪ But responding to Nathan Bryce's flirting was about as wise as striking matches to find a gas leak.
▪ That was the occasion when a gas leak caused an explosion which wrecked an entire tenement.
▪ The first reactor was closed down for repairs earlier this year after a gas leak.
▪ The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak.
coal/oil/gas field
▪ A slim slice of those revenues has always been cut for the communities in the oil fields, local politicians say.
▪ A third appraisal of this potentially significant heavy oil field will be drilled in 1993.
▪ For many residents of the oil fields, Pemex executives seem little different from the foreign overlords they replaced.
▪ Moreover there are indications that in this gas field a secondary fracture porosity may exist.
▪ North Shields became the export base for much of the South East Northumberland coal field.
▪ The downturn in the energy industry dragged on so long that workers drifted away and oil field equipment became outdated.
▪ We do know that most coal fields began life as swamps about 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period.
gas/electricity/water etc supply
▪ But neither at school nor at home was there a gas supply.
▪ Is there an electricity supply? 7.
▪ It is claimed the dust left behind pollutes water supplies.
▪ That left municipal water supply as the sole conceivable justification.
▪ The cisterns were the huge catchment tanks which held the city's water supply.
▪ The companies plan to apply the concept to gas and electricity supplies as well as security systems.
▪ This' black rain' left a sticky oily coating on people, livestock, crops, water supplies and buildings.
mains gas/water/electricity
▪ A smaller pond was pressure cleaned and filled with direct mains water.
▪ Even horse clippers were powered by this system, but this was replaced by mains electricity.
▪ Facilities are basic - only one has mains electricity - although all have a toilet and cold water.
▪ In every case there is mains electricity & a good water supply.
▪ My mains water is a problem.
▪ The station, seven miles from the nearest road, has no mains electricity.
▪ Used in such a way, there is no requirement for electricity, telephones, mains water or drainage.
noble gas/metal
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ 5000 civilians were gassed to death by the army.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I was a long time because everyone was gassing in the shop.
▪ To get away from some guys in a Camaro who wanted to race, Juan says, the friend gassed the bike.
▪ You want to gas people, gas them after November fourth.